So let them mock our wokeness, our safe spaces, our trigger warnings, our virtue signaling, and our cancel culture. Be strong in the knowledge that all these smears come from a place of fear. Rest assured that you are the latest in a long line of people who over the years have asked and been denied, but never gave up until they secured the rights

You see, the strength of myths is not in facts, but in the narrative. It is in the actual stories. The “facts” myths use are just conduits, devices that transport and plant the myths, like the fronds of a flying dandelion seed. And so, it is pointless to fight fake facts, or true but cynically twisted facts, with other facts.

The language of mythology, and its concepts and classifications have become so widely distributed, so deeply entrenched in our popular culture and discourse, that instead of freedom fighters, we see vandals. Instead of moral courage, we see virtue signaling. Instead of kindness and sensitivity to others, we see safetyism. Instead of accountability,

Some members of our intellectual elite are so steeped in the fear of change, so wired by toxic myths that make them suspicious of revolutionary movements that they do not lead or have a role in, that they took one look at the largest global movement for equality in a generation, and the only thing they saw was a threat to “open debate.” They looked

In the same month, the Mississippi legislature passed a bill to change the state flag to one that does not include the Confederate battle flag. NASCAR banned the Confederate flag altogether. The chief of naval operations tweeted that he had “directed [my] staff to begin crafting an order that would prohibit the Confederate battle flag from all

A report by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism revealed that the overwhelming majority, 71 percent, of politically motivated extremist deaths in the US in the ten years preceding 2017 were at the hands of far-right or white-supremacist ideologues. The proportion of such crimes committed in the same timeframe by Islamic extremists, the

The success of a myth depends on how well it can convince enough people that they are exempt from its consequences. A myth creates winners and losers, and then convinces its adherents that they are the winners. Patriarchy continues to thrive because enough men believe that they are winning, despite the system exerting such pressures on them that in

Despite this obvious weight that men wish they could share with women, feminism is perpetually presented as misandry, further alienating the “good men.”

So, a woman’s victimhood is rejected. Ironically, this is where denial of agency happens. It takes agency to be a victim; it takes grit, determination, confidence, and honesty to stop running away from pain and perceived humiliation, to assert that you have been compromised professionally or physically for being a woman, and to reject the blame for