So you have to plant your commander's head in your head and let that regulate your behavior. I find that to be a very, very unhealthy kind of control. It's surprising to me that people would think that it advances the cause of heterosexuals to live under that. So I'm trying to point out to people who think they might benefit from the policy that they probably don't benefit much. They can have their heterosexuality, but now they have it with paranoia.
People think the action is elsewhere.
The book functions in a lot of dimensions. It's a law-reform piece, but it's also a piece of high queer theory, and it's also law and humanities work of the kind that I'm trying to encourage students to do. So there's a lot of different people that I'm engaged with over it. Whether it's going to be controversial or effective in any sense is too early to know. The Department of Defense recently revised the guidelines.