Sexist body slamming goes both ways

  On my ride today, I swerved to avoid a 3-year old boy who ran into the bike lane, in doing so, cutting off a cyclist behind me. She yelled and I swerved again. I regained my balance in time to hear her curse me out. And then, clearly after she had regained her composure, she said some ugly things about my body. (I'm not providing details.) That made me stop and dismount. She apologized. Even so, it still hurt. I said she wasn't so pretty she should be making personal comments like that. And I called her "lady" so she'd feel old. And I feel bad about that.
  All this because a little child did what little children do.
  All I want to say is that if you think sexist body slamming only goes one way, from male to female, that's not true. It's not enough to get respect, you have to give it too.