That poorly-chosen "girly" remark is really blowing up, it's all over my timelines. It's about time this happened. I grew tired of Bono describing his eighties vocals as "sounding like a girl" as if that was some kind of pejorative. But it seemed to slip by with nobody raising more than an eyebrow.
For a guy who just spent a whole tour using the encore to highlight women's contributions and achievements, you would think he would not choose his words so poorly, but this remark is not an isolated slip of the tongue, he's been using it as a putdown for years. And for those people who didn't see JT30, this is all they're going to hear of Bono's attitude to women. If you just have a casual interest in U2, you're going to see this, think "that Bono's a real tool huh", and then keep scrolling.