So you're saying that women aren't taken seriously because they feel like they aren't taken seriously? Did you even read the part of the article about circular logic?
Of course it seems minor to you, that doesn't mean that it's not a real thing. You have to be mature enough to realize that your perspective isn't the only valid one.
Turn it around for a moment. Imagine you work in a mostly female industry. There's something that you, as a man, care about, that your women co-workers don't (I don't know, scheduling you to be on-call during the World Cup finals). What do you do?
Option 1: Say nothing, suffer in silence, and feel like they don't know or care.
Option 2: Say something to try to improve the situation, and have people accuse you of getting your boxers in a bunch over something minor.