A year after Utah politician Charlie Kirk's death, former tradwife author Tia Levings writes that the growing mythology around Kirk serves the interests of Christian patriarchy rather than the young women drawn to his ideals. Levings, who left a fundamentalist marriage and has written about purity culture and submission theology, argues that hagiography of male leaders reinforces systems that harm women.

Kirk, a Latter-day Saint and conservative state legislator, was killed in 2025 and has since become a symbolic figure in certain religious and political circles. Levings' commentary in The Salt Lake Tribune examines how his memory is being shaped and deployed.

The piece is part of Levings' ongoing work critiquing Christian complementarian movements and their impact on women and families.