This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

by Shaker AnnaAnastasia

[Trigger warning for sexual assault and rape apologia.]

Even the title is awful: Assange, Morality, and Desire.

The article is positively craptacular. It's from yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education, which, for those who don't know, is the premiere journal for higher education professionals.

The author, a recently tenured professor, basically attempts to make the case that Assange shouldn't be faulted for rape because of cultural and age differences with his victims. Because older Australian men have different sexual ideas than young Swedish women. Or something. Plus, Assange was "seduced" by the Swedish summer at the time.

I can't even write it without shaking my head.

The Chronicle is aimed at higher ed professionals, many of whom work with students 18-25 who are at residential campuses. I'm sure I'm not the only Chronicle reader who has worked with far too many students who have been recently raped, and no doubt a few who have raped someone, because it's easy to get away with rape on a residential college campus.

How will this article shape, change, or even reinforce the views of higher ed professionals who so often deal with rapists and their victims...?