Our society is in the throes of identity politics. Debates about what constitutes identity, what are “acceptable,” “assumed,” and “constructed” identities often reach war-like intensity. The pressure to self-identify within prescribed parameters and the social consequences of choosing a governing identity create a form of social neurosis. And the neurosis is compounded by the currently fashionable academic concept of intersectionality. Instead of providing a healthy alternative to the atomized identity narratives, intersectionality compounds the neurosis by supplying sociology with the lens of privilege and victimhood, furthering the fragmentation of the social fabric…