Holy victim status

From today's World Net Daily:

A 12-year-old girl who says she was traumatized when her teacher showed the film "Brokeback Mountain" featuring love scenes with homosexual cowboys is suing the Chicago Board of Education for $500,000. .... According to reports, the student, Jessica Turner, claims she suffered psychological distress after watching the movie, which stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two cowboys who fall in love and includes love scenes between the two men and between the men and their wives.

This is the logical result of years of sexual harassment and hostile work environment theorizing. For years, we've been ramping up protections against "harassment" in the workplace and in schools. It's gotten to the point where "harassment" is in the eye of the victim. In the last round of (mandatory) "sexual harassment awareness training" I went through at work, we learned that if a person considers something offensive, that's the opinion that matters. There is no "reasonable man" standard in play. I've been thinking, next time we're called in for training, I may well declare myself offended by that standard. If any random person has the option of declaring something I say "offensive" or "harassment", with no regard to what I may have intended, that gives any random person the power to declare me a "sexual harrassment offender" and I have no defense. Jessica has used this theory to declare herself a victim. Schools have been quick to bend over backwards for any number of victim groups with not much more support for their grievances. It'll be interesting to see what kind of treatment this grievance receives.