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And yet every single woman I've ever asked has had some pretty horrible stories regarding sexism, if not outright harassment. There's also still a horrible bro culture problem in a lot of places. In no way have we crossed a line where everything sexist has been fixed and now it's just all about witch hunts.

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The existence of one problem does not justify purposefully ignoring the other; both sexism and witch hunts are bad, and both should be corrected, neither should be ignored.

Of course. But you do have do look at any particular situation in its broader context. If there wasn't a huge and ongoing sexism problem, it might be easier to ignore the warts and give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes. But given how things are, those kinds of warts contribute to a hostile workplace and can't be overlooked because they contribute to toxicity. They aren't simply outlier views that can be harmlessly ignored.

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