To be fair society is valuing emotions over facts right now, and if you do try to engage with someone who's more on the emotional end of the spectrum (men or women), despite the facts, Human Resources is still going to take someone's feelings into serious account, often more strongly than what the facts actually are, and we are being forced to navigate that.
If everyone is siding with what one feels, you're kind of fucked, because your facts and truth won't help you, not if the mob is going to come after you.
These penguin employees didn't even read the book, they literally just cried, and that was enough to get this kind of attention.
And here in Canada, where we are much more liberal and Socialist, tears are very very powerful, unfortunately.