"fair" for a male musician but not noble. The implication of female musicians engaging in sex with groupie derails any follow up discussion into handwringing a

"fair" for a male musician but not noble. The implication of female musicians engaging in sex with groupie derails any follow up discussion into handwringing and slut shaming so quickly that the author just chucked the qualifier in there to (try to) prevent people from accusing Palmer of ¡having sex men! in addition to everything else.