The light shines in the darkness, and no darkness has overcome it.
(from the New International Version of the Bible, John 1: 5)

Here is the very problem: it is centrally a sexist problem, and it is also deeply racist.

There is no battle between light and darkness. We need both. Darkness is, in fact, where creation happens. In the chaos. In the un-seeable, the un-knowable.

Perhaps men’s (especially white men’s) fear of darkness, of the mystery contained in darkness, is understandable; they have, after all, been working to deny, oppress, and overcome it for eons. But men would wise to come to know the darkness and to get comfortable with operating in the unknown, in places where there is no obvious or linear order, in places where creation happens, in places where they are not in control.

Darkness is not, and cannot be seen as, synonymous with evil.