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It is demonstrably and provably more prominent for men to do this to women.

http://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/zimmermanwest1975.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275005639_Influence_of_Communication_Partner's_Gender_on_Language

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2933016

This is a well-studied phenomenon. Women are more likely to be viewed negatively when they assert themselves after being interrupted, so one-size-fits-all advice doesn't work. That "firm" voice will be viewed as firm when a man is speaking but will be more likely to be construed as hostile when a woman is saying it.

He's being downvoted because he's wrong. Not everything is a gender thing, but this one very much is.

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But "it has nothing to do with you being a woman" is wrong. This happens more frequently to women than it does to men, and as I said in my other comment, the same advice does not apply to both women and men in these situations, as perceptions are different when different genders assert themselves.

But you're saying he shouldn't have been downvoted when his comment was just wrong.