I work in an IT office full with women and a couple of beta guys who take any opportunity to gossip. Now, some of the girls are really cool and stay away from that, or do it in a jokingly way.

Others, especially a couple of girls and a guy, take any chance they get to gossip the sh* about other people. Not only that, but this kind of individuals take, for example, event A and reinterpret it and blow it out of proportion to A*100.

The reason this bothers me is that I can't go around being extra careful because they may start talking, and I can't also end up confronting them every time they start talking (behind or upfront) about me or others just because they feel like it...

What do you do with issues like this?