The mere fact that so many software developers don't see the big issue here is exactly the big issue.
In my not so humble opinion, people are simply looking for something to complain about. If there were a supposedly man-degrading word that could easily be expressed in hex, I'd use that for debugging, too. There's absolutely no reason to think that the use of these words is somehow meant as some sort of insult, and taking it as such appears to me to show a very rigid mind.
If it had said "the only good thing about women is big boobs" this would be a different case, but it doesn't. The phrase alone means nothing and anyone calling it derogatory or celebratory is simply projecting.
My anecdote is not data, but neither are vast and wild generalizations like you are making.