I find it very odd and 
that any mention of being patient and calm, and god-forbid nice to posters who come here with (sometimes) naive questions is met with such hostility and cries of "we are not teachers!" "we don't want to educate!" and even suggestions that the mainstays of the feminist board do not want to feel "superior" by slowing down and explaining things.
fine.
you are, of course entitled to feel that way.
but you cannot then be upset when, time and again, the feminist board is held up as a place where people cannot be bothered to post as they get jumped on so often.
there has been no suggestion that posters need to behave better than on other boards, or withhold emotion, and not get frustrated.
but the repeated houndings that happen are not nice.
they don't want to be educators on the SN board either. they are not qualified to be teachers (in the way that some of you here have interpreted that).
but they do share their thoughts, and, generally, are nice to each other.
they don't pounce on people who ask (sometimes) naive questions, and they don't get shirty when people do not understand.
they explain, sometimes at great length, and go out of their way to be inclusive.
I am not intimidated by the posters on here, but I cannot be bothered to get into bunfight after bunfight, to be told (by people who do not know me or anything about my life) that I am not a feminist, because I do not meet their specific definition of that, to be told that I am a rape apologist, and all the other accusations that, to be frank, get trotted out time and again - and a lot of the time at the drop of a hat.
yes, the posters here can be witty, articulate and edgy.
they can be everywhere on MN.
and tbh, if there is a specific section for something, then posters are going to seek out that section to ask a question - just as happens with other "named" sections.
yet a lot of the main posters here have openly aid that they do not want to be educators - they do not want to answer queries.
I guess you all just want to sit in a corner and debate amongst yourselves.
Good luck with that. But don't be surprised when the feminist section is yet again mentioned as the unfriendly one, or the unwilling to be inconclusive one. No one is asking you to change who you are, or even what you say. but you really do not have to be so aggressive about it - a lot of the time the situation really does not warrant it (and yes, I do know the difference between assertive and aggressive, just as I know the general differences between male and female speech patterns - use of language, in particular perceived and actual differences in usage between the genders having made up a large part of my post graduate studies)