Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives.

An enabling myth is just that—a myth that enables those who benefit from the status quo to keep on benefiting. Thorstein Veblen would say that it enabled the usufructuaries to keep on usufructing.

You damned devil dodgers are going to undermine the whole war!

[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.