I don't consider a joke about the length of a skirt worth worrying about in the grand scheme, to the point that I may well make the joke myself, and I don't necessarily see it as part of that "having to take a joke" culture. Passing jokes just don't come under that for me, in great part because I would like some freedom to make my own jokes at times because it's a laugh and I like to have that in the work place. I don't relish the idea of blokes having to completely adjust their behaviour around me because they're scared they're going to say something not PC that someone could take offence at. There are certain environments, if we genuinely want equality, where we have to become a little less sensitive to what we may have to face - and I happen to spend a great deal of my professional life in some of them. That's where my personal perspective comes from. Bottom line is that before women turned up, the guys were already harsh on each other. Having said that, if I get comments made at me ever that could be construed as sexist in some way, I've got 101 lines to fire back to put someone in their place - with varying degrees of seriousness based on the individual situation and it usually only makes the guys respect me more for having honorary balls and speaking up. Blokes I've worked with are definitely just as harsh on each other as they are on the women in the environment - it can be tough at times for everyone and you've got to have armour plated skin to make it. I'm lucky in that all of us who work in the places I have have had to prove ourselves - male or female. In my personal experience, when I've pulled my weight professionally, given as good as I got, took a joke at times, integrated as part of the team and the working culture I chose to join- the guys I've worked with have got my back so much that it's been really humbling at times. Plus, plenty of the women aren't exactly devoid of being just as sexist. As long as it's a level playing field, then fine. It's when it extends beyond that and women have a harsher time, their position being made untenable professionally because of persistent harassment, and then get told "oh, you've got to be able to take a joke..." that I have a problem.