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There was a time when virtue summoned manly images like that of The Iliad’s Prince Hector soothing his wife and infant son before venturing out into battle.

But these days, as Alexandra Carmeny points out in a recent essay for Ethika Politika, the term is more often associated with pinkness and petticoats, to the point that online discussion often tends to frame any form of perceived moral conservatism as stuffily feminine.

Take, for example, the feminist blog staple “pearl-clutching,” an accusation aimed at an individual one means to cast as caught up in near-hysterical outrage.

As Slate’s Torie Bosch explains in her brief history of the term,

The phrase pearl clutching, which means being shocked by something once-salacious that should now be seen as commonplace, like sex, is ubiquitous on blog posts, especially in media geared towards women.

Bosch notes the phrase has popped up in venues from Salo