As a logical proposition, however, it is clear that engaging in market analysis is not synonymous with engaging in capitalist exploitation. The study of a system is not the same thing as endorsement of that system. Unless or until the revolution comes,¹²⁴ avoiding all talk of the market may well ensure that capitalist exploitation triumphs. Still, at both intellectual and emotional levels, many LesBiGay law professors might feel overwhelming anxiety that the study and the support of commercialism are inseparable.

All told, such mindsets are powerfully fixating. To the extent that the legal academy is captured by those misconceptions, they will block any real awareness of the commercial coding of LesBiGay identity. Those mindsets will prevent a full and unobstructed vision of the commercial routes opened for LesBiGay achievement and progress. Put simply, with their gaze fixated on law and politics, LesBiGay scholars will continue to drive by the rearview mirror.