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In my women's studies class earlier today, the discussion turned to the pressing issue of rape.

As the lone male in the classroom, I felt an unstated hostility rise against me.

When it came my turn to speak, I stood, and stated calmly:

>Rape is a social construct. It doesn't exist.

The air was sucked out of the room.

The morbidly obese TA's neon-lipsticked mouth hung open.

Before my professor, Myz. Steinberg, could ruffle her Indian-patterned poncho and kick me out of class, I hastily added:

>Women used to be regarded by men as their private property. Wives and daughters were literally owned by their patriarchs. Men thus invented the concept of rape not to protect women, but to legally punish other men for the unlicensed use of their property. When a woman claims that she was raped, she is only perpetuating this patriarchal ideas of body-ownership, internalizing phallocentric concepts of property and masculinizing herself as a kind of pseudopatriarch, and thus only furthering her own oppression. Given the above moral genealogy, the fact is that the concept of rape only exists as a masculinist social construct, and to seek true liberation, women must unpack and deconstruct this "rape" paradigm and recognize that it is impossible for a truly feminist wimyn to ever be "raped," whatever that means.

I bowed slightly, and sat back down.

The TA was rolling on the floor moaning, and my professor had died from cardiac arrest several minutes earlier.

My fellow students however raised a cheer and immediately swore a spontaneous vow to become good Christian housewives.