This...seems like a stretch. The author fits the 'safe space' narrative to the story, but it's a little difficult to discount that maybe young people are just

This...seems like a stretch. The author fits the 'safe space' narrative to the story, but it's a little difficult to discount that maybe young people are just tired of the awfulness. I mean stuff like this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_among_LGBT_youth_in_the_United_States#Explanations_for_overrepresentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_among_LGBT_youth_...) - you have gay girls who are fleeing home because they're families are trying to "rape them straight". The Hetrick-Martin Institute showed that among homeless queer girls aged 13–15 in New York City, that 50% of them were homeless because they were fleeing familial corrective rape. So, yeah. Young people get defensive about how others use words because the world is terrifying. That makes perfectly rational sense to me and it seems pretty sad that the author can't see that. Not to mention the huge uptick in gun violence or lack of mental (or any other healthcare) or lack of good paying jobs or the fact that half the country is addicted to Oxy or heroin. But no, it's the youth of today that are wrong. /s