"To me, this is akin to thinking all Arab and North African-looking men must be suicide bombers because the terrorists we see on TV look like them. Such a blanket association would, rightly, not be acceptable in liberal, Western society. Yet this same society seems to shy away from holding men from Muslim backgrounds to similar standards."
That sums it up nicely from the article above. It was the men on NYE who were racist and sexist, not our reaction to it.