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There is a large difference between answering a question incorrectly and having it planned as part of a speech.

Tell me you've never started answering a question and halfway through you start realizing the path you've started going down is not what you want to be saying.

Just look at these comments on this article - he admitted his mistake and he still is being lambasted.

He was asked a panel question, he wasn't giving a speech.

oh, ok, I apologize, I missed that.

I do agree that he probably said what he meant, but I don't know that he meant what people think he meant. I'm assuming here of course, but I think he may have simply neglected to mention that his advice would be the same regardless of sex or gender. And I think his later comments support that idea.