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.
This gave me chills. Both men and women are exhorted to deny their animal nature, to sad and disastrous consequences. To be sure, we are more than our biology, but it is the cauldron. My heart truly breaks for young people today. They are manipulated into being enemies with those who should be their mates. Suspicion and self-preservation taint their interactions.