Your posts are honest, genuine, and appreciated. Most members support your candor and find it helpful. Thank you.
The reason for the flak is because these are examples of
logical fallacies by utilizing
personal attacks and
manipulation of the intended statement to distract away from the real argument and to trick others to agree. Politicians and trolls use this quite effectively to distract or distort from the intended argument.
Straw man fallacy: when someone argues that a person holds a view that is actually not what the other person believes. Instead, it is a distorted version of what the person believes.
Example: "futuredo32 thinks all women who don't wear makeup are in malignant programs." (trying to pretend she equates makeup as the sole attribute to determining malignant programs)
Hasty Generalization: claims too hastily made, hence they commit some sort of illicit assumption, stereotyping, unwarranted conclusion, overstatement, or exaggeration.
Example: "there's so many more good programs that are not malignant so essentially there's nothing to worry about! yay!

" (we don't hear about or know of the number of malignant behaviors and it is extremely troubling and dangerous to an applicants career and mental health when they are in malignant programs)
Ad Hominem: attacking the character or circumstances of an individual who is advancing a statement or an argument instead of seeking to disprove the truth of the statement or the soundness of the argument.
Example: "futuredo32 is sexist and too foolish not to recognize that women who don't wear makeup aren't in malignant programs. I'm concerned about her capability to analyze patients as a psychiatrist."
(trying to discredit her and paint her as a sexist incompetent psychiatrist)
Example: "crooked Hillary" (it was an example off the internet)
Most of the responses above weren't intended to do this but some may have been. The worst part for a medical applicant is when they realize these tactics have been utilized to document "concerning behavior" by a malignant PD or program. These manipulative practices can be used to end a residents career and a common "strategy" to document a "pattern of behavior", "personality disorder", "lack of professionalism", "lack of competency", or "mental illness" when in reality it's the response to the problems of the residency program or individual in power who compensates with malignant or threatening toxic means. Once again most programs don't do this but know this happens and can do the same if they choose to.