“I invited her here as a demonstration of utter madness,” Hoff Sommers said, pointing out Segal, according to a video of the event. Someone in the audience called Segal a “dog,” which was met by laughter and applause. This is where a months-long battle with bloggers and internet trolls began to unfold for Cora Segal, protest organizer Jennie Chenkin — two women at The Triggering, a UMass Republican Club forum that posed the question, Has political correctness gone too far?

