It’s not the lame joke that did it. I have said exactly that same thing in elevators. I last did it in the 1970s when we still had a country, and most people had a sense of humor and didn’t consider silly-a$$ humor to be SEXUAL ASSAULT worthy of calling the police and shoving a hot iron poker into your digestive tract the back way and when raging feminazis didn’t yet have the total power over you that they now have.
You did nothing wrong. No apology. Jail for the fangtooth manhaters.
Oh, but he did do something wrong: he apologized ... in writing, no less.
He should have respectfully disagreed with his critic, and nothing more.
No place them in the stocks and administer 6 lashes
“last did it in the 1970s when we still had a country, and most people had a sense of humor”
That was back when it was fun to go to work. I can’t even imagine being in the workforce now - joy-less and soul-less robots. Ugh!