Is it harder for a man to be knocked out of a tourney/sng by a woman?

[DMC0627]

SNG this past weekend, I knocked a guy out, he says leaving the table "I will never live this down, being knocked out by a girl". A guy at the table right next to me agrees with him, and tells me its much harder to lose to a woman than a man. How many guys feel this way? Do you play woman differently because of it? Very curious about this.