From the op-ed in question: "It’s not that I didn’t make my share of mistakes, or act stupidly and inchoately, but it was embarrassing, not traumatizing." [1]

From the op-ed in question: "It’s not that I didn’t make my share of mistakes, or act stupidly and inchoately, but it was embarrassing, not traumatizing." [1] I think this is an important point. These kids can't tell being embarrassed from being traumatized. Presumably this woman embarrassed herself by getting too drunk to perform in bed, so she felt traumatized, and the idiotic professor was the obvious scapegoat. And when the infantilized man- and womanchildren are dragged out of their "safe spaces" to face real criticism for their embarrasing ideas, it's a traumatic experience, so who else to blame, but those who criticise them? In that mindset it's easy to imagine the op-ed as a retaliation. 1. https://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia/190351/ https://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia/190351/