However I don’t feel the companies are indeed “protecting ALL their employees from discrimination”. I think they are rather “projecting to protect their employees from discrimination”.

Some progress in human society are evolutionary, that is, they shall take place, because of the sheer movements of things around. New parties will declare old policies bad, new reformers will add few words to the old book, and new law shall need to amend the old laws.

But as Frederick Douglass once said, ‘all movements are not progress’, the manner in which the changes are taking place today in corporate America, its sickening to the core. In the above report, it says 200 major companies have gender-inclusive policies. This of course means not even the top 500 companies that get ranked in magazines have a policy in place, let alone implementation.

My response to the present state of corporate sector is one of disgust, not one of relief. Unfortunately, inclusiveness is still at the discretion of companies. If it were a fundamental policy, then the state and corporates would have to be forced to adopt it.

While hailing the movement towards civilization, which we have done through posting of this article, we also need to hold the same corporates accountable for the lack of radical change that is required of them to embrace, or face the wrath of majority of people (all minorities that are discriminated against collectively form the majority).

When shall we have policies that can be set in motion as rules, not just as feel-good diversity projections that are left at the mercy of reactionary administrations, ill-informed judiciary and greedy corporate class, to either implement or throw out in gesture of color and gender blindness?