I’m betting the young girls are being idiots freely without compulsion.
The ability to be offended and injured by proxy, to imagine what has merely been asserted to have happened represents something done against you is a vital cornerstone of the Left.
They frequently need to feel, to internalize, and even suffer vicariously if that suffering reinforces the narrative of the Left.
Thinking rationally can get in the way of that.
Someone wrote the letter and the girls want the 5 minute of fame.