1. Many men find it humiliating to dress like a woman and do make up.
2. Many men find it humiliating to serve for their competitor.
3. Richard Branson is a man.
All the logical prepositions you need to show that there is at least one interpretation for the events that does not involve misogyny.
Why bend over backwards to smear a man who has made so many women rich and powerful?
It's still possible that a man "who has made so many women rich and powerful" might do something distasteful or misjudged - and it's possible to propose a discussion about this behaviour without it turning into a smear.
The fact that many men find it humiliating to dress like a woman is exactly what I find distasteful. With my apologies for escalating the rhetoric : many men find the idea of sex with another man humiliating - does this justify making fun of homosexuals?
No, and he is not making fun of women, he is making fun of his own masculinity.
And there's a difference between making fun of homosexuals to hurt them, and to make fun of them to be merry with them.
Thirdly, your opinion on the feelings of men in general is rather inconsequential. What do you want to do, flog every man who finds it humiliating to dress in drag?
No. He wants to have a discussion of gender issues to try and increase mutual understanding and global human happiness.
Unfortunately that's an almost impossible discussion to have, because some people always divert the community into a pointless meta-discussion about whether it's legitimate to have the first discussion or not.
I've almost never seen HN discuss gender. I've seen it discuss discussing gender for pages and pages and pages...
All the logical prepositions you need to show that there is at least one interpretation for the events that does not involve misogyny.
Why bend over backwards to smear a man who has made so many women rich and powerful?