Really Howie
You totally oversimplified things.
The way forward in any discussion is to be accommodating of views that may not line up with your own views. In his "compliment", is an acknowledgement that individuals exist on a spectrum of behavior; a bell curve. There are things that generally hold true and there are outliers. He finds me to be an outlier, and so holds his belief in relation to the rest of the bell curve. We still disagree on the merits.
Pandora still holds the view that women should be treated as children; I still hold the view that women are more cunning than a childlike viewpoint recognizes.
Don't mistake politeness and acknowledgement for agreement. It's a mature examination of differing opinions, which I think is healthy & useful.