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"he certainly did not intend to use ... (which I've heard him use for men) as a gender slur." It doesn't work like that. If you walk around and use well-known

"he certainly did not intend to use ... (which I've heard him use for men) as a gender slur." It doesn't work like that. If you walk around and use well-known slurs for homosexuals and African Americans, but then say "yea, but I also apply them to straight white people, so clearly I don't use them as orientation and race slurs", you will become a pariah just the same. I don't know anything about the emails that you mention, but then again, I am not really "plugged in". My e-mail is in my profile, feel free to forward them.

hardhome 10y ago
He's an east coast liberal. He comes from a social circle where it is unthinkable to insult someone because of their gender, but where the words "cunt" and "fuck" are barely considered profanity. Given that the tech industry is teeming with misogynists and uncultured mouth-breathers, he probably shouldn't have used any word that even looked like "cunt". That was stupid on his part. No disagreement there.