Guess he did. Joking about "niggers" gang raping Jesus didn't cross it, but suggesting that he preferred not to read about feminism in tech was just too much.

More likely, the Valleywag article forced BI's hand.

Yeah, I followed him for a while because he had some occasionally snarky and clever conservative quips [1]. (I like following and reading lots of smartass people all across the political spectrum)

I can remember reading quite a few and thinking "wow, this guy's gonna get called out one of these days". Guess it finally happened, and by someone with a big enough megaphone to really make it go viral.

[1] "Passion of Christ" tweet not among them. That was just foul.