Right, he couched his sexist tropes in specific language that provided him with deniability. It's standard, and you seem to have fallen for it.
Does nobody get the benefit of the doubt anymore because bored social justice warriors are looking for a fucking witch-hunt?
Downvote away.
Up voted.
(Also: do you seriously think that women have such fragile psyches that they can't take a simple joke? What does that say about your view on women?)
I think that plenty of people, men and women, have such fragile psyches that they can't take a joke - or, at least, that taking a joke requires extra effort which distracts from the matter at hand.
For the record, I don't think the slide was as bad as some people are making it out to be, but to dismiss concerns over it as motivated by sexism is rhetorical prestidigitation and not an actual argument.