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Re:Official comment from HN on dead threads by trowawei on Thursday March 21, 2013 @05:56PM (#5419412)
There's another moral of the story here: if a woman is anywhere near you, never say something that could possibly be interpreted as sexual.
Re:Official comment from HN on dead threads by TheCapn on Thursday March 21, 2013 @06:40PM (#5419750)
"Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right" -Ricky Gervais

This is one of those situations where a word was used with proper english definition and was taken completely out of context for the sake of argument. To trace that to a racist undertone is the fault of the reader and a lack of reading comprehension (taking tone and context is important).