The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

by Amanda Montell

While men’s tastes in conspiracy theories often point them in the direction of UFOs and satanic cabals, educated women are more likely than anyone to embrace New Age concepts, like moon bathing, crystal healing, and manifestation techniques, including the law of attractionIII.

Like when people would get terribly bent out of shape over the blasphemous new idea of using “they” as a singular pronoun, despite the fact this usage can be found in writings as old as the fourteenth century. (Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Austen were all fans of singular “they.”)