The problem with secret societies…

“Diversity is America’s super power.”—Will Smith

As a boy, my friends and I had a “secret club” where we could be boys (grossing each other out with bugs and snails, practicing fart noises or having burp contests, and talking about those strange creatures called girls). Sometimes that childhood club only has one member, but that one kid can let his imagination roll. (I’m being sexist, but I never observed this among girls until junior high when they created their cliques.) These secret societ...