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>He could have gone with anything (asshole for instance!) but chose to Other women and likely not intentionally, which is still no excuse.

Which is insulting to donkeys.

EDIT: The problem is that you need to pick your battles. His word selection, out of all the possible sexist terms was quite possibly the least sexist out of all the sexist terms he could have used. On the whole, considering that the sexism of the term douchebag is still an unanswered question, it's hard to find fault.



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