 As Hilary Wainwright wrote in "Z Magazine", Freeman described how "this apparent lack of structure too often disguised an informal, unacknowledged and unaccountable leadership that was all the more pernicious because its very existence was denied".As a solution, Freeman suggests formalizing the existing hierarchies in the group and subjecting them to democratic control.The phrase has been used to describe one problem in organizing (the other being "rigidity of structure", according to ecofeminist Starhawk).