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It's not a backhanded comment nor an insult, it's not tangential because it's my central argument.

Which, when you think about it, is just a backhanded way of disqualifying women.

I do believe you meant what you said, the problem is that your original comment sounds like a backhanded compliment (not sarcastic -- that's a different thing) at best.

And I would suggest that Federer is the last of the great single backhanded tennis players.

Joking aside -- why is so much OpenBSD advocacy backhanded like this?

This and parent form a pretty backhanded compliment to 15 minute songwriting!

Presumably it's a sort of sideways/backhanded almost-compliment to OS X: it works well enough comparatively that its plusses overwhelm its negatives for the commenter.

I get that you want to build your email list, but it is a bit backhanded to hide pricing that far in.

He frowned at my drawing and backhanded my concept.

I might be looking to much into it but that statement is pretty backhanded and either he doesn't like you, doesn't care, or he's an idiot.

I love backhanded compliments about Apple's marketing.

Being flamed by PHK appears to be somewhat of a rite of passage in the FreeBSD community, by the way, so at the time I saw his remark as a backhanded compliment.

"All you want is a backhanded intro" I wouldn't do any of this in a backhanded way, founders will smell it.

You also called them an "expert" (backhanded compliment).

(Backhanded comment comparing women's football to "kickball" not appreciated.) Have a good day sir.

And in a backhanded way, this relates to "do the simplest thing that could possibly work" (although I have begun to have some doubts about that philosiphy).