Women would prefer a campus that restricts offensive or biased speech, men would prefer to speak their minds.

The article repeatedly references restricting speech to avoid "hurt feelings". I - and would argue many women - have a different view...

https://www.macleans.ca/education/freedom-of-speech-on-campus-our-survey-of-canadian-students/

For context, I teach a class called Women in the Economy. It is a wonderful class with engaged and open-minded students (~75) and a great deal of dialogue on sensitive topics. At the moment we are talking about abortion policy.

Are the students free to say whatever they like? No. Every one of them is subject to the UBC Respectful Environment Rules ( http://www.hr.ubc.ca/respectful-environment/) which they are required to read and are part of a gateway test that students must score 100% on in order to access course materials.

For example, they have to answer questions that look like this:

Is this because we are precious snowflakes that cannot tolerate the opinion of others?

Nope. The issue is that there are some who will use the platform that is created by a large university classroom to recruit others to causes that exist to hurt women.

Years ago I had a student in my class who early in term expressed the view that being a woman was a form of mental illness. This did not hurt our feelings.

But, by halfway through the term he had recruited two other men to his cause...

One of those men, who I had previously known to be respectful, later in the course said (during class):

"I can't wait to be finished university so I don't have to work with women any more"

You look at movements that are dangerous to women and you wonder how they manage to recruit thousands of men to their causes.

I can't answer that question, but I can tell you how they don't recruit men - they don't do it in my class. Not now.

Did this person who was recruiting in my class ever physically hurt any women? Yes. He did.

Women students don't want speech restricted because we are precious. They want speech restricted because they are afraid for their safety, and the safety of others, if it is not.

The question we should all be asking here is not why do women want campuses that are safe for all students.

The question we should be asking why don't men?