When Office Rules Collide: What Your Pink Hair, Tattoos, and Kinks Reveal About Workplace Culture
Eternity Collars
Many of us strive to be as accommodating as possible to other people’s quirks, differences, and lifestyle choices. Yet even liberals may balk at the suggestion by a reader of the career-advice forum Ask a Manager that she be allowed to wear an eternity collar to work as a symbol of her commitment to a 24/7 dominant/submissive relationship.
While intimate discussion of sexual practices clearly does not belong in the workplace, this woman regarded the collar as a symbol of commitment to her partner, equivalent to a wedding band. Those who feel that her alternative lifestyle should be kept a secret are, however unconsciously, echoing the rhetoric once used (and sometimes still used) against LGBTQ+ relationships.
