Rush has done more for the cause than any of us—and all of us put together.
But his crude lambasting of Fluke was an idiotic faux pas on his part, made worse by his doubling down on it as hard as he did.
He’s always had a blind spot and tin ear about addressing women and “women’s issues” in particular.
Even with the crude crack about Sandra’s situation, a better followup than mere groveling would have been possible... the horse is out of the barn now, but there will be other horses in other barns to learn from.
If I could rewrite a sequel for Rush it would be something to the effect of stating that “why of course Sandra isn’t a slut, and I thought everybody understood it. You know, ‘reductio ad absurdam’ is a well respected means of making a point. But she is being a liar and that’s worse.”
to learn from => to learn about how to deal with from this