Something doesn't have to exist as a certain quality for a subset of people to determine that it may be perceived as "too much a likeness of some THING".
In short: You can be banned for talking about pasta in a noodles forum. That doesn't mean pasta is not a noodle.
It's not sexist. Them banning it as sexist does not make it sexist.
Every day I wake up to the programming community becoming more pretend, more fake, more toxic and less open. Ironically the very thing it is trying to distance itself from.