"White men and Third World men, ranging from conservatives to radicals, pointed to the seeming lack of participation of women of color in the [feminist] movement in order to discredit it and to undermine the efforts of the movement as a whole. All kinds of men were running scared because they knew that, if the women in their midst were changing, they were going to have to change too . . . In reaction to such "threat" of change, black men, with the collaboration of some black women, developed a set of myths to divert black women from our own freedom" (1985) Barbara Smith.