# When is sexism okay?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-sexism-okay/490037
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 19, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-sexism-okay/490037 "2009-03-19T16:27:11Z")
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### Author: ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-sexism-okay/490037/15 "2009-03-19T17:06:47Z")

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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:

> [@Wow, our new hire is my dream guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-our-new-hire-is-my-dream-guy/490010/16):
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> 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.

> [@Wow, our new hire is my dream guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-our-new-hire-is-my-dream-guy/490010/21):
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> 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.

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