There's probably a reason why this teacher wrote her article in Inside Higher Ed anonymously. She discusses how she had been teaching her class about "rape culture," because... well, what else is there to learn about at college? Anyway, she was in the middle of this series when one of her male students pushed back at her line of reasoning. He questioned the existence of "rape culture," talked about how men are sometimes raped as well, and -- worst of all -- he described feminism as "pointless."

Let's first take a moment and marvel that universities aren't already wired for surveillance so that if a student expresses those heretical views, the PC police show up to make an arrest. But somehow, this student's independent thoughts made their way from his brain into a research paper, which was just too much for the feminist teacher. This is how she described it:

As I went over his paper, I realized that I was reading a paper that sounded word for word like something the man who raped me would say. And not only did this sound like something my rapist would say, this student fit the same demographic profile as him: white, college male, between the ages of 18 and 22.

I got up from my desk and went for a walk. I could not concentrate. I had plans to read a book later that afternoon, which were shattered by being thrown back into a pit of traumatic, fragmented memories by this student’s paper. I was furious at the fact that, as an instructor, I was expected to take his paper seriously, and scared of what he might do if he did not like his grade. Although I knew it was unlikely that this student would literally try to rape me, his words felt so familiar that I began having trouble distinguishing him from the man that did. Their words were so frighteningly similar that the rational-instructor side of my brain could not overpower the trauma-survivor side.

The worst thing about this professor's lament is that she tells that her afternoon book-reading plans were disrupted by this paper. The horror!

She goes on to write that she believed the student's paper undermined her professorial authority. “Zero!" she screamed at the paper. "You get a fucking zero!” 

Wow. I think it's time this teacher took a step away from the classroom and a step toward a good psychologist. If you are a conservative on college campus today, realize that your very existence can trigger teachers into hysteria.

Photo Credit: Flickr's Orin Zebest

​h/t Heat Street