Such an environment has a horrible failure mode: when you're actually direct and just say what you mean, for example, because otherwise disaster will happen, everyone will immediately start theorizing what you could possibly have meant by being so direct. It's both ridiculous and dysfunctional, and creates paranoid spirals of backstabbing and ass-covering that burn entire companies down.
People who feel easily demeaned or hurt are generally insecure. They can't take a joke because they take themselves too seriously. They will also try to suck up to others because they hope that will curry favor and avoid negative consequences when they mess up.
It's basically a recipe for avoiding responsibility, and the last thing you should want in an environment where excellence is required to do a good job.
Having spent time in such a company, and eventually getting booted out when somebody _else_ lost their temper at me, here's the craziest part: the people in charge thought I had no filter and always spoke directly... in actuality I was constantly biting my tongue, keeping tabs on what was going on under their noses, and giving them plenty of hints and time to course correct before I spoke my mind... and even then I chose every word carefully, always staying within the bounds of decency.
They didn't even realize that what they saw as unacceptably direct, was actually another person's idea of overly constricting and two-faced, and they didn't realize what it would be like to navigate from the outside. Getting them mad was actually the only thing that _did_ work to trigger any sort of positive change. Anything else would just get rationalized away.
My advice: find people who can take a joke, who are eager to learn, and who don't define themselves purely through how others see them, and you won't need to worry about stepping on their toes. I'll even cop the heat and say your chances of finding that among a majority of female coworkers are extremely slim.
When you do find yourself worried that your communication partner needs to be handled with kid gloves, and that you can't just say what you're thinking... that's not an environment you want to be in, not among adults.