Since time began, women with a point of view have been dismissed as hysterical or out of control.

So Donald Trump was simply adhering to a rich history of gender bias this week, when he tweeted a picture of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi standing up to him in a meeting with the caption: “Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!”

The insult was a classic move for the President, who uses Twitter as his primary arsenal to attack political opponents. But what he perhaps did not anticipate was the whiplash speed at which Pelosi and her online supporters would flip the message around.

The internet can’t get enough of “badass” Nancy Pelosi standing up to Trump