In a recent post analyzing some of the curious sexual politics behind the recent repeal of Ronald Reagan's policy of homosexual discrimination I touched on the desirability of avoiding all sexual politics in every workplace. Doing this would actually be the outcome of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' if it were literally enforced, and not merely a media spun euphemism for discrimination also attributed to Bill Clinton.
Consider, if you will, the sexual politics of those Clinton years - where the right wing disrupted the government and nearly overthrew it with nothing more than gossip about consensual sex - under the leadership of Southern History Professor Newt Gingrich as a newly anointed Speaker of the House.l
Consider also the role these allegations played in funding the military - a strategy that in this instance amounts to nothing more than sexual extortion. Of course both sides play this same game, the allegations of Anita Hill against the bribe taking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas come to mind, and there are many more - you most likely have experience or witnessed at some point in recent history.
Flash forward to today - when such behavior is a part of the institutional span of control of just about everything - perhaps so well coordinated that our once decentralized organizational system has become nothing but one megalith controlled by the financial plutocrats of wall street and their DC lackeys.
Feminists will tell you that sexual conversation in the workplace is inappropriate, yet that is exactly what we have - and it is conversations founded in hate, without even a glimmer of pleasurable lust nor even, perhaps, real love.
So why shouldn't we keep all sex out of every workplace - and political conversation - or at least make it just taboo enough that it isn't brought up unless it really matters - for love, or punishment.
Yet instead we have a society where the alpha 'man' can take out any potential competitor by simply sicking his mid-level hate harem upon him. Is that capitalism? No, that's another beast entirely.
Do the sexual hate mongers already have their hands on the 'balls' of our 20 something military and police?
How long will it be until the first American dies for the cause of speaking his mind responsibly and constructively under conditions of legal defamation and sexual slander?
Will that first death be me?
