Pussification in America: Political Correctness is Gay

In a ruling that could carry implications for comedy clubs across Canada, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has upheld the right of a bar patron to receive five-figures in damages from a comedian whose performanceshe alleges gave her post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The line prompted boos from Ms. Pardy's table and kicked off an escalating string of slurs and lesbian-themed quips, climaxing with a pair of off-stage confrontations in whichMs. Pardy threw two glasses of water at the comedian and he, in turn, broke her sunglasses.

As Mr. Earle told it, however, the couple was passionately kissing in the front row and repeatedly interrupting the set with obscenities when Mr. Earle tried to "shut up" the table with the quip "you're not even lesbians; no guy will f*** you, that's why you're with each other" - thus kicking off the ugly escalation.

After a pair of agitated conversations with the bar owner the next day, the last of which resulted in Ms. Pardy screaming to restaurant patrons that the owner condonedviolence against women, Ms. Pardy took her case to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

In the end, the tribunal ruled that Mr. Earle's attack had aggravated Ms. Pardy's "pre-existing condition of generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks, and caused her PTSD." Long after the episode, for instance,Ms. Pardy said that simply hearing Mr. Earle recount the evening in a radio interview caused her to miss work.
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When asked why she did not simply leave the establishment, instead of staying until the very end of the performance, "she said she didn't leave because she was too shocked, and that she literally could not get up from the booth," according to decision documents. As for the water-throwing, "Mr. Earle's conduct had put Ms. Pardy in a condition where she was unable to immediately formulate a measured, or even rational, response."

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OneofOne_sl said:

You sure that's not some sorta Canadian version of The Onion? Maybe, hopefully?

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Numbers_sl said:

Incorrect dumbass. B.C. Supreme Court, B.C. Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of Canada.

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Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice David Farrar accepted Ms. Doucet's testimony. "She had an intense fear of Mr. Ryan, was feeling helpless, felt she had lost control and felt she was threatened with annihilation," he wrote in his decision, adding that "there was no other safe avenue of escape available to her."

The judge decided that "a reasonable person . would have acted in the same manner."Ms. Doucet had been "manipulated by the police and had no willpower to fight back," he found, and acquitted her.

Nova Scotia's Court of Appeal upheld the decision. But this year, Canada's Supreme Court found that Ms. Doucet's defence of duress "was not open to her in law" and her acquittal was struck down.

In an extraordinary move, the Supreme Court also ordered a stay of proceedings. This means Ms. Doucet cannot be tried again for her actions on the same charge. According to the Supreme Court, Ms. Doucet had suffered enough.

"It would not be fair to subject [Ms. Doucet] to another trial," Justice Louis LeBel and Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote for the majority. "The abuse she suffered and the protracted nature of these proceedings have taken an enormous toll on her."

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