As sexual harassment cases have typically been matters between men and women, sexism can easily color perceptions of the problem.

mmmm, that is a good point, but it seemed like OP was trying to make this another "women in tech" thing, which in this case it was not.

While in this case there's not really enough information to make any kind of judgement, I feel it is important to point out that sexism can occur between people of the same gender and sexism is not strictly relegated the realm of how one gender is treated by another.