When is sexism okay?

[Tracy_Lord]

I don’t care if anyone admits anything. I want it to stop. I was ignoring it, and I thought it had gone away, until dba Fred brought it up randomly and Rhythmdvl jumped on it. This disproves the “ignore it and it will go away” hypothesis.

Then these were posted:

@Marienee

You can at this point either ignore it entirely, in which case it will likely go away, or you can keep responding in this way. In which case it has some potential to reach, er, skaldic proportions.

@Zeriel

Part of it is that you react predictably and negatively when poked by it, and there are people who can’t resist that kind of temptation (this is far more likely to be the real reason why people do it than sexism–it’s got nothing to do the fact it’s boobs and everything to do with your reaction (see also “buckeyes”)).

which disprove the “tell people to stop and they’ll stop” hypothesis.