A pre-med student attending college in California has penned a scathing review of the current climate surrounding sexual assault on college campuses.

The student, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote her essay in response to a public-health class assignment asking students to watch a video in which Emma Sulkowicz, the former Columbia University student who carried a mattress around protesting what she claimed was rape, discusses her mattress project. Students were asked a series of questions pertaining to the video, including "What do you think of her approach in responding to her case of rape?" (notice the absence of "alleged") and "Look into her story and see how her alleged rapist responded. How do you think the university handled this delicate situation?"

The student responded by condemning Sulkowicz's behavior as "a parody of all the worst parts of radical or 'Tumblr' feminists" and said she was "ashamed to even belong to the same species as her." The student was outraged by Sulkowicz's accusation, especially after having followed the accused student's side closely.

"Not only was Emma's false accusation abhorrent and did she inflict physical and emotional trauma on Paul [the man Sulkowicz accused], but her response to the widespread media attention is the most immature and attention-seeking action she could've possibly taken," the student wrote.

The student's evidence for Sulkowicz's attention-seeking behavior was the fact that she claimed to be deeply traumatized and triggered by things that remind her of the incident, but spent every day reminding herself of what allegedly happened. "Furthermore," the student wrote, "why would she produce a porno of her 'rape' that would've forced her to relive all of those emotions once again?"

The student insisted there was "an extremely valid and rational explanation" for why neither Columbia University nor the police department held the accused student accountable: Because he didn't rape her. The student also called Sulkowicz's continued campaign "a form of self-victimization."

Speaking broadly on the topic of campus sexual assault, the student called the current approach — of treating accused students as guilty from the outset — to be "backwards and counter-intuitive," which resulted in "detrimental unforeseen effects" against accused young men, who are seen by activists as "collateral damage."

The student also wrote about the current strain of feminism that is leading to accusations like Sulkowicz's.

"I grew up thinking feminism was a movement to empower women towards self-sufficiency and independence, and Emma's response and subsequent actions are the complete opposite," the student wrote. "If this is the modern definition of feminism, then I have absolutely no interest in being associated with this movement (or the self-pity party it has become)."

Her essay has been uploaded in full to a website dedicated to clearing the names of wrongly accused young men.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this assignment came after the student turned it in. Instead of admonishing the student, the graduate student instructor was appreciative of her counter viewpoint. The instructor commended the student for not believing everything she hears and for providing a different take.

The student told the Washington Examiner that the reason she doesn't adhere to the popular narrative surrounding campus sexual assault is that a close friend of hers was falsely accused and expelled.

"Seeing how much it negatively impacted his life in all aspects, from crushing his trust and faith in women to robbing him of the education he spent 18 years working for to the financial burden it has become on he and his family, I've seen the physical and emotional consequences of discrimination and the breach of constitutional rights on a human," she wrote in an email.

She wrote that she has seen false accusations rise across the country, and that it was becoming "increasingly apparent" that she needed to "defend the rights of men in our nation when their voices on this issue aren't taken seriously by the rest of society."

She also wrote that she sat behind a group of girls in her class the day they were shown the propaganda film, "It Happened Here." When she made comments to some male classmates about how inaccurate many of the statistics used in the film were, the girls turned around and glared at her.

The student wrote that she won't back down in her views, even if she receives a backlash by posting her essay online.

"The backlash is unavoidable when going against the status quo on any issue, but I stand firmly with my beliefs and will never stop spreading the truth on this issue," she wrote.