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by MattGrommes 4547 days ago
Well, you're not a woman who has to put up with cat-calling and name-calling on the street so I wouldn't expect you to see it as disrespectful. Mr. McClure didn't see it as disrespectful at first either until a number of his followers helped him understand why it would be.

This article left out a bunch of the discussion he had with people who called him out on his choice of words, it's worth reading.