Canadian Politics Today

I don't get the 'shielding' part, but I do see people calling out negative experiences and bringing down the entire idea of the 'public' persona.

I was thinking of some of the other things going on-- the idea that students in Lindsay Shepherd's seminar had to be protected from hearing the Jordan Peterson debate clip, the idea that we need trigger warnings to protect people from subjects that are part of everyday reality, the idea that clapping is frightening for some people so we should use "jazz hands" or snap our fingers when we applaud.  There seems to be a movement to protect people from stuff they don't need to be protected from.

And to me the women who've complained about Aziz Ansari and Patrick Brown fit the theme.  These are legal adults who made their own decisions and later felt unhappy and want to blame somebody other than themselves for their disappointment.  They seem to feel that they should have been protected from their own actions. "I was given drinks."  "I was taken to his home."   It's as if they don't have any agency... they don't do things, things just happen to them.

 -k