This is generalized powerlessness. And it isn't imaginary. A young woman whom nobody is protecting, nobody is married to, who has no present father, who has no brothers, has a lot of VERY GOOD REASONS to be afraid.
Add to that an ideology that DENIES HER FEELINGS and says she should be a big, strong woman who doesn't need a protector, and she has two problems instead of one. Her fear, and her self-critical sense she should not have her fear.
This would make anybody insane.
Only white women are made to deny the obvious. The others are allowed to be scared.
Non-whites get to complain. White women are told they can't complain.
And their mother has a new man, not their father, and after a few drinks he may shoot her an eyeball. Now she has no mother, either. She has nobody.
She's not crazy, she's under attack, but unlike in war, she has been issued no rifle.
Excellent analysis.