Misses what point?
I think you missed my point. I'm not condoning some behavior as "minor" and therefor not worthy of attention, but a "hostile work environment" is not the same as sexual assault and rape and when you combine the two into one in an effort to show how pervasive this problem is, you cheapen the really serious, and weaken your real argument.
I've posted elsewhere that we ALL (men, women etc) need to be aware of this issue in the work place and take steps to intervene and avoid these kinds of problems. When we see somebody not acting professionally on the job or when we step over the line ourselves we need to DEAL with it, sooner rather than later. We also need to look out for each other. I'll give you an example...
I was sent on a business trip with two associates, a man and a woman. We where overseas. My female co-worker and I had hotel rooms on the same floor and she often needed to use my company calling card to phone home so we where knocking on each others door from time to time to pass the card back and forth. I never entered her room, nor let her enter mine. Both us guys were available when she needed to go places after work hours and offered to escort her for safety reasons. Not because she couldn't take care of herself (she was a self defense instructor), we where just all looking out for each other. I've done the same thing on many business trips with co-workers.
And that's just to illustrate that we all need to be looking out for each other, even at work. You may not like working with somebody, but the professional thing (and the right thing) to do is be looking out for the folks you work with and quickly deal with harmful situations as they arise and avoid them when possible. So that means dealing with "hostile work environments" before they become a pattern, dealing with harassment quickly and instituting a culture that discourages such behavior.
But my point is grouping rape in the same bin as an occasional off color joke does not serve the case all that well and only serves to make light of the really serious offense.