He must be a neanderthal, because a real man wouldn't grovel when he knows he's right.
"This man is a neanderthal - period."
"He must be a neanderthal, because a real man wouldn't grovel when he knows he's right."
Bingo - he should NEVER have apologized, NEVER, he didn't say anything wrong, just pointed out the obvious.
I signed many sexual harassment waiver forms along the way to enable the guys to freely banter so that my being female didn't interfer with the football talk. I, in fact, LOVE sports - follow football and baseball (and an old fashioned sport called Hockey) closely.
And... I'm not a lesbian or a feminist or anything else. I am a female who worked hard to be accepted as a co-worker in a very male field.