where do men get the audacity?

today's thought-provoking interaction

today, a man on the treadmill next to mine berated me for several minutes, screaming at me for being on the phone. he shouted, with his finger in my face, “are you always this loud, you fucking bitch?” and i couldn’t help but laugh, because i couldn’t believe he was actually seriously behaving the way that he was at 9am at our gym. he threw a full tantr…