being a victim of cultural beliefs is pathological idiocy is "agency" in some quarters

If you can't tackle an issue because it seems too hot to handle, then you can pretend everything is as it's supposed to be. Like the young boys being molested by priests were really expressing their own agency in accepting priestly domination. As I said yesterday, this was Freud's mode of analysis as well -- you are a totally free agent, with no social forces to limit or obstruct you, so if he end up in harm's way, you must have chosen that out of pathological idiocy -- or, as some feminists might term it, "agency".