That's hilarious. You've parsed that so as to try to dodge the fairly obvious connection between "first female referee, probably never played either", and overlooked the fact that there was no reason to even MENTION the fact that she's female and there have never been any female refs, except to attempt to make that a disparaging statement about her. The intent was clearly to deride, and he used gender as part of the means of doing that. It was sexist. Full stop. It was nontheless excusable, because we've all said dumb things we don't really mean in the heat of the moment. That's all.
And yes, I believe I explicitly SAID I was more annoyed with the player than his comments. Several times.
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