There are ways to condemn someone without casting aspersions on an entire gender. The WSJ was able to basically single-handedly dismantle her hype and company without even any kind of insult.

Cue the protest of "political correctness", as if not explicitly deriding her gender would put us at risk of whitewashing her crimes. I've liked using the b-word too. I stopped after working construction in a rural town, where perfectly decent fellows would use the n-word in the same context as the b-word, e.g. That's -work, or: I got shotgun, you're sitting .

I found it hard to believe that I could use the b-word and not have it be a subconscious comment on what I thought of women. Holmes is an asshole, no thought of gender needed.