Feminist author Lyz Lenz is in the midst of trying to sell her latest book, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life. And when you’re selling a book, many consider any publicity to be good publicity, which probably explains this post Lenz wrote earlier this week.

The idea that marriage was invented to perpetuate white supremacy is, of course, absurd, as succinctly noted by these posts from former Intercept reporter Zaid Jilani:

As preposterous as Lenz is, she is not, unfortunately, alone in her belief that marriage is a tool of white supremacy. In fact, as I’ve documented before, there is an entire scholarly feminist literature making this exact case. 

In her paper, “Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality,” George Mason University associate professor Bethany Letiecq makes the case that “marriage” should be added as a fourth pillar to the existing “three pillars of White supremacy,” which apparently include: 1) anti-black racism, 2) anti-indigenous settler colonialism, and 3) anti-immigrant orientalism. 

It is easy to see why bitterly single feminists like Lenz are so eager to tie marriage to white supremacy. The Democratic Party is, at best, ambivalent when it comes to marriage as an institution. With some center-left voices now making a case for the importance of marriage, the Democratic Party consensus on marriage is in flux. 

Perhaps, as more and more black and Latino men abandon a Democratic Party that currently tells them they are unneeded as fathers and providers, some Democratic politicians might be tempted to reverse course and make traditional family formation part of their platform. 

This would be a disaster for a feminist movement that has always seen marriage as, in the words of Lenz’s hero Simone de Beauvoir, “an oppressive institution, which restricts personal freedom and perpetuates patriarchal values.”

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Before any Democrats get any ideas about telling black and Latino men that they are vitally needed as married fathers in the homes of their children, feminists are moving to label the entire institution as a racist tool of white supremacy. 

Will Lenz and her feminist allies succeed? Time will tell. But already, most Democrats are skeptical about the value of marriage, and fewer Americans are getting married every day.