You should go over and see Thundley's link. The mental gymnastics are astounding. They're summed up pretty well by Seabeyond:
seabeyond (69,116 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. we recently had an argument on du that we own these words, so they are no longer offensive
I guess in owning them, it is only our side that gets to degrade women with words cause we are progressive, so we really don't mean anything sexist with them. Repugs though, now they really mean it.
I don't know if she's sarcastic, or really means this.