Wow that's quite the mouthful from you guys.
It's not really that I find the explanation sexist, and more that I just find it sounding incredibly stupid. It just feels that Greg is making things up completely as he goes, all of a sudden made Orde a male and then is like,"Hmmmmm, how I am I going to explain this?"
It doesn't sound well thought out at all.
I know Greg has been known to improvise, but this just is terrible.
The people on BZP are eating it up though.