Including 3 times on the indoor leg of Joshua Tree tour in April 1987 immediately after it came out ... in LA, San Diego, and SF. In LA we waited around for hours for them to drive out the venue, and when Bono came he stood up thru the sunroof and they drove thru the crowd real slow so he could high-five as many people as he could ... and I caught me a high-five. I was SO HAPPY! Definitely had a man-crush on all them dudes.
Also, I probably know damn near every word to every song from Boy thru ATYCLB off the top of my head. I even have the 45's of 'Where The Streets ...', 'Still Haven't Found ...' and 'With or Without You' tucked in the jacket of my Joshua Tree vinyl, which sits with my vinyls of Boy, October, War, TUF, and Rattle & Hum. As such, I could probably even sit and sing you obscurities like "Spanish Eyes" or "Luminous Times" or "Lady With The Spinning Head" (which is the "One" b-side) ... off the top of my head.
I agree ... it's just a poor word choice. Bono has definitely earned 'the benefit of the doubt' to me 
Further, by naming all the women I who's music I love, I set out to prove that it's really not even an insult to 'rock like a girl'.
Speaking of people they've brought onstage, when I saw 'em on the outdoor leg of Joshua Tree tour in Oakland (in,I think, October 1987), he brought the artist Vaillancourt onstage to do 'graffiti' on it. Remember this kerfuffle, where he sprayed-painted 'Stop the Traffic Rock and Roll" on Vaillancourt Fountain in the SF Embarcadero, while filming for Rattle and Hum? Remember when DiFi (still SF Mayor) got all bent and charged him with Vandalism?
He responded by getting the artist himself to come up on HIS stage and 'vandalize' it next time he was in teh Bay Area. Pretenders (when Johnny Marr was with them) were the openers on that night ... what a GREAT friggin' night!
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