I hate people :-(

[Burney]

Basically, if you want the right to treat a woman like a woman, you have to actually be a man; you can't be a homo about it. I mean the sort of homo who grumbles that women aren't grateful enough when you hold the door open for them or something.

That chap, in this day and age, had to have been fully aware that he was skating on very thin ice.

Indeed. A proper man would have stood up, let rip a massive fart and shouted 'SEW A BUTTON ON THAT, LOVE!', at which point all the women within earshot would have been putty in his hands.