The Obama administration re-defined "sexual assault" in order to obfuscate the incidence of rape on college campuses. They included brushing up against someone at a crowded frat party as an example of sexual assault.  And they also included "sexual harassment" that included VERBAL offenses. This is from the "Dear Colleague" letter sent out by the Obama administration:

"Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature. It includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature."

So yes, young mens' lives have been ruined for even *saying* something that someone found offensive. It that's not authoritarianism, nothing is. Thank God Trump put someone in charge of the DOE that will correct this lunacy.