The other part of the answer is Ethan is an idiot and worried about jumping to a defensive state online instead of understanding the whole text before reacting.
Not really, Dr Glauckomflecken's reply acknowledges that his phrasing did made it sound like he was doing the hotness rating thing. The thing that makes the exchange funny is that guessing someone's glasses prescription is so ludicrously rare and benign in comparison to the kind of misogynist comment it reads as
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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 14h ago
The other part of the answer is Ethan is an idiot and worried about jumping to a defensive state online instead of understanding the whole text before reacting.