You're a coward. I work in a field where saying something like that is not tolerated because there are laws against it.

The authenticity of the Prudie "letters" is questionable. This current Prudie may have selected Jews as the object of the Boss's insulting comments since she had an answer already written for that particular prejudice. The bottom line for most of us readers is that bigotry has to be treated as a generic problem. You can't parse it out and say it's ok since it wasn't my group that was insulted.

You may even feel safe since you, the LW, and the boss are presumably women. Perhaps you could understand the problem better if you change the boss to a male and the focus group group to 'women'. How about if the LW was an engineer intern and the boss made constant comments about women?