conduct. Ms. Stiger’s “singular stray comment does not a hostile environment make.” See Freedman, 255 F.3d at 848. Ms. Toomer contends that Ms. Stiger’s comment was not a mere stray remark because it was “connected to [the] ongoing racially offensive event” of the action figure display and Ms. Toomer’s complaints about that display. PL’s Objs., ECF No. 99 at 15-17. But, as explained abové, a reasonable observer would not view the action figure display as a “racially offensive event,” so Ms. Stiger’s comment — “Do you think of yourself as a monkey?” — was not “part of a pervasive pattern of hostility and ridicule” that is necessary to sustain a hostile work environment claim on pervasiveness grounds. See Dickerson v. SecTek, Inc., 238 F.Supp.2d 66, 83-85 (D.D.C. 2002) (emphasis added) (<HOLDING>). Ms. Toomer also suggests that' Ms. Stiger’s
holding that female security guards had asserted viable hostile work environment claims when their male supervisor regularly threatened them yelled at them called them chick used the word bitch in their presence discussed trips to strip clubs with male coworkers in the workplace and stated that women dont belong in security holding that a hostile work environment was sufficient to constitute constructive discharge because the harassment was expressed by the plaintiffs supervisor and the offending language was not only used in the plaintiffs presence but was directed at him holding that a plaintiffs psychological distress was not vicarious in a hostile work environment case where she experienced her workplace as hostile by reason of the alleged harassment of other women out of her presence holding that alleged statements to thirdparties did not substantiate a hostile work environment claim where there was insufficient information as to when the statements were made how knowledge of them was acquired and when the plaintiff was informed of them if she was holding that a viable hostile work environment claim requires an environment that a reasonable person would find hostile or abusive