After consuming this article, the update, and the comments here, this is the take on the situation I'm walking away with: 1. The manager was unjustified in say

After consuming this article, the update, and the comments here, this is the take on the situation I'm walking away with: 1. The manager was unjustified in saying that W was "too hard on S". 2. Based on the story in the article, it's not fair to say that the manager's unjustified statement was based on sexism. There isn't enough evidence to conclude that. 3. Rachel very well might have experienced sexism in the situation she wrote about and various other ones, and Rachel simply didn't explain it well enough in her article, or could only remember this ambiguous example where it's not entirely clear that there was sexism.