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I agree with your point about the patriarchal metaphor of courage as requiring brass balls, but your alleged corrective sentence is contradictory. Tact is a quality that indicates respect and deference, so it makes little sense to *not* ask someone a question using tact; that's just keeping quiet. One *could* ask a non-judgmental, unprejudiced question using tact. However, given the hostility toward the person being talked about, I doubt if anyone would have either the courage or tact to ask him anything about the hullabaloo.