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Why did you link that, can you provide more context?

It doesn't seem like a massive deal according to what they state: he made a joke and it wasn't well received. They never say what the joke is or what about it was sexist.

The salient excerpt:

> while they described the skits as typically a “roast,” they emphasized that “the goal is not to offend.”

Really just seems like some more character assassination by Gizmodo.

> more ... assassination

You can't kill something that's dead.

If the administration of Harvard felt they needed to formally apologize it seems unlikely Gizmodo just gined this up out of nothing.

No one has looked to school administrators for moral guidance in many, many years.

I submitted that yesterday.

Whatever you think of this guy it doesn't surprise me that this other stuff is coming out. It seems like you would have seen his views in his behavior in the past... which these new things seem to show.