Day after day I tell my students that if I teach them maths it's not because I think they will all need to use functions or vectors in their future, a minority among my students will actually pursue a scientific career and most of them will forget all of my lessons in the next few years (or days for some of them)... but because learning maths is learning how to think in a mathematical way : pure, straight to the point, rational, always backed up by proofs. Just cold logic.
It's not the only way of thinking a normal person need to have to be a proper adult, but it's one way of thinking everyone need to experience at least once. There are times when emotional intelligence is needed. And there are times when pure intelectual logic is needed to solve a problem. But of course for the pure sjw, critical thinking is the ennemy because they all see the world through an emotional lense. In doesn't matter what logic has to say because emotions always prevails in their minds.
Maths is a tool which has allowed mankind to understand and describe the world for thousand of years. It's thanks to maths that we can study the world around us and beyond ours stars : biology, chemistry... maths is everywhere. Maths is also a tool which has always allowed mankind to be abstract. We were once only capable of counting sheeps and being interrested in what we had to eat. But now we can think about infinity, about what is nothingness. Maths even allowed Einstein to lay down his theories...
I know a lot of people don't like maths because "it isn't useful at all in real life" or "it's too complicated"... but man not liking maths because of the patriarchy is maybe the dumbest reason I heard.
... Sorry. Maybe a bit too heated about this subject