I have a pin on my jacket that reads: The Future is Female. I bought one for myself and for my teenage niece for Christmas to remind her that we didn’t get it this time, but we’re not giving up. That we matter, and that we won’t stay quiet while we’re made fun of, or minimized, or harassed.

Last week, while waiting to board a flight to visit clients, I took that pin off my jacket. Of course I did. After all, I represent my company and my agency. Anything that I say will reflect on them. If it became an issue, I didn’t want to put my co-workers and my agency in that position. No one asked me to do that. It was my decision and, frankly, I didn’t want to risk it. I didn’t want to make waves.

And I never want to do that again.

What are you going to do when you walk into work one morning and your co-worker (or boss) is suddenly wearing their “Pepe the Frog” lapel pin? Which one of you rushes to HR first with complaints of being offended? Who’s side does the company take? Which of you rushes to hire a lawyer and sues for a “hostile work environment” first?

When taken to it’s logical conclusion, you are suggesting employers should take an active role in the political process which can result in nothing but “far left” and “far right” corporations each advancing their own political agendas. Instead of being interviewed and hired based one’s professional accomplishments, job seekers would get hit with a “political views test” to measure their “fit” with corporate culture. The employer becomes the arbitrator of which political views are acceptable and which ones aren’t. That’s not a pretty picture.

You may be able to walk away from your job at any time but most people can’t afford to do that.

Your “The Future is Female” is probably pretty innocuous but if everyone is allowed to wear whatever political message they want on their clothing as a routine part of the workplace environment, it is essentially a complete embrace of the Citizens United decision — a Supreme Court decision that most legal experts put on a short list of “Worst Legal Decisions EVER”.