Do you think its Frankie's pride/ego that stops him from apologizing or is he just dumb and he doesn't get it? Or maybe he thinks he would be betraying Paulie? Deleting the tweets suggests that he knows he said something stupid. I think its on his mind too because during his coming out video, when he said everyone should be equal he said "men and women" first before gay and straight even though sexuality was the whole topic of the video to begin with. Feels like a slap in the face.
his m.o. is to delete, disappear & deflect when he sticks his foot in his mouth. the most recent example prior to this was his use of the “all lives matter” hashtag. he deleted his tweets & posts, disappeared, then deflected by showing up a bb18 taping with a kid he was granting a wish to, which was diabolical because how do you counter that? (the one exception to this pattern was his apology after bb16, which had to have been arranged by joan since it occurred the morning after the finale.)
he's not dumb, but no, he doesn't get it. not completely. frankie suffers from rich white man privilege. because of this, he has blindspots with respect to issues affecting the 99%, people of color, and women because those are things that don't affect him. so this is how, on the one hand, he can talk about how bullied and afraid of bear he was on cbb because of bear’s views on lgbtq+ people, while on the other dismiss that the women on bb18 felt the same way with respect to paulie and his sexist/misogynistic views on women.
it's how he can talk about the strong women in his life while simultaneously mansplaining misogyny and feminism (in ALLCAPS no less) to his primarily female fanbase. guaranteed, if ari had been one of the women in the house, frankie would be having a completely different reaction.
it's how he can tweet "my sis would have shut it down. that's the difference between a real feminist & someone who hides behind the title" (ignoring that the bb18 girls did in fact attempt to "shut it down") while at the same time his mother is tweeting "just to continue proving that he is a sexist, dt will hold a wife responsible for her husband's alleged bad behavior."
you can be friendly with someone without condoning their views or behavior. however, to do that, you have to actually come out and say it, e.g.: "i don't agree with so&so about [issue] but that doesn't change the fact we're friends." that doesn't seem to be the situation here. the content and tone of his tweet spree indicates he doesn’t have a problem with paulie’s behavior. it was nauseating and infuriating to watch him tweet definitions of misogyny and feminism at female fans and then watch paulie, who called women dumpsters and equated feminism to racism, retweet them. beyond obnoxious. when even your “defense squad” is pissed you should know you’ve fucked up.