Who care's who you sleep with (if you're not sleeping with me)

Today (Sunday, July 13), there was a replay of a 60 minutes segment about don't ask don't tell. I must admit that I don't understand a lot of things, the military included, but I do understand the stupidity of deciding about someone because of something that has nothing to do with you (race/gender/sexual orientation).

Listening to the army commander talk about how a macho and manly man cannot be homosexual, and US soldiers are more macho than any other soldiers in the world, I thought about how ignorant he sounded. And the language they use is just like the language people used during World War II to talk about Black troops in the US army. The US military, in it's defense, did integrate in the 40's, before almost any other public or private entity.

But why, why are people obsessed with aspects that other's can't control. And that have nothing to do with the people who are worried about them. Melanin doesn't rub off. You can't catch someone's sexual orientation like a cold. You won't become a woman by working with (or under) one.