SCREENWRITER NOT

I've been plagued with naysayers at times in my life. One time in a coffee house where I worked writing on my laptop every afternoon, I was in a sea of screenwriters - all male. They were coming and going all day, moving from one coffee house to another to be out of their apartments, active, busy, but also in a clique. They rarely if ever talked to me. One day one of them actually walked to my table. He didn't introduce himself or ask my name or make any small talk at all. All he wanted to know was "Are You A Member of the Screenwriters Union?" I guess all those hours of hearing me type away had gotten to them. I wonder if the other guys put him up to adventuring on over to me. I'm not a screenwriter. But in Los Angeles it often feels like that's the only writing anyone understands or thinks is worth a writers time. As they say, just about everyone has one screenplay in their drawer at their "real job." - And when the time comes I wouldn't be surprised I too adapt a fiction or nonfiction book I've worked on into a screenplay. I can't say it actually infuriated me since, sadly I have grown accustomed to naysayers, but I overheard this same guy talking one of his pals and calling me "THE GIRL WHO TYPES!" It was beyond these sexist men to imagine that I am NOT a GIRL, but a woman, that I am not just TYPING, but creating content or creating a world of imagination. Nasty comments like this are consciously or not, aimed at reducing a hard working, educated, talented, and skillful writer, into a secretary. I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!