I think we have far too many people around already who've found an excuse to think of themselves as different and better. I'm not ready to let self-righteous, scolding prudes pose as different and better and go unchallenged.
Two recent events have made me realize that in many ways the mainstream in this country has ceded the right to make some rules to the most prudish among us. One event was a more or less compulsory teaching session on workplace harassment I attended two days ago. The other is the widening fuss over the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus.