At some point, we all have to grow up.

Ruth Marcus writes at Real Clear Politics:

College Is Not for Coddling

WASHINGTON — Trigger warning: I’m about to commit a micro-aggression. Maybe a macro one. Here goes: Yale students worked up over an email about Halloween costumes, grow up. Learn some manners. Develop some sense of judgment and proportion.

The Yalies are all spun up over Halloween costumes — specifically, an administrator’s suggestion that an official email cautioning against offensive outfits was unwise and, indeed, infantilizing. The email, from Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis, was caveated and respectful.

Still, she wondered, “Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious? … And the censure and prohibition come from above, not from yourselves! Are we all okay with this transfer of power?”

Her husband Nicholas, the Silliman College master, suggested an alternate approach, Christakis wrote. “If you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”