Big commentators, pundits and influencers often use these terms pejoratively to dismiss the views of those who want to see.
They use them to mock the blind. Without realising that they have spoken truth when they use the terms unicorn, dragon and whale.
It has been said: "face the dragon and you will see". And those who face the dragon, head on... will see.
But those who mock you for facing the dragon will have unconsciously accepted they are blind. So they should not be trusted.
These terms, though fraught with myth and symbol are extant. They are objective facts of the collective psyche. Truth.
And those who mock these terms and you will have served them up, as if prophets.