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Southern, 20, had stepped into a 25-person strong “counter-protest” to a cancelled event that was supposed to be held by Augustus Sol Invictus, a U.S. Senate hopeful running for the Libertarian party on a platform of less government involvement in people’s lives (he’s also a pagan who drank goat’s blood, among other things.)

The event was cancelled when Invictus couldn’t make it through customs at the Canadian border, and when the Railway Club, which were supposed to hold the event, was made aware of Invictus’ supposed beliefs, presumably by members of Vancouver’s Antifa group (VANANTIFA), which describes itself as “anti-fascist, anti-racist, all the time.”

Invictus spoke a few days earlier in Portland, where members of Rose City Antifa showed up in force, smashing his car and attacking him and one of his supporters.

Long story short, Southern, who’s never backed down from a good debate, began to question the viewpoints of the Vancouver protesters, largely members of Vancouver’s feminist and LGBTQ communities.

Southern, who also ran as a candidate in 2015 for The Libertarian Party of Canada, before having her candidacy suspended for challenging females at Vancouver’s SlutWalk event earlier in the summer, argued on Friday against the notion that there is a “rape culture” among Canadian men, and against the idea there are more than two genders.

That’s when things got, well, sticky.

The perpetrator of the attack was briefly held at the scene by those in Southern’s camp, but was eventually let go.

Southern tried to make sense of the incident later on Twitter.