“Empowerment” is a code-word for domination.
The term “empowerment” is primarily used in the context of a hierarchical relationship in which the subordinate subject is being offered a limited selection of choices deemed acceptable by the institution or the authority figure acting as the broker or agent of the institution.
“Empowerment” is double-speak.
“Empowerment” is a signifier of rank, and a spell invoked to ensure that rank is maintained.
Rarely do men ever speak of “empowering” themselves or each other. The word is primarily reserved for women, and it’s ubiquitous throughout the birth-world.
In the realm of birth, “empowerment” is the cookie women get for submitting to the construct that what’s available to them is either A or B.
“Empowerment” is a consolation prize.
“Empowerment” is the designation attained when women allow themselves to believe that the decision they made to accept either A or B, was not only the correct one, but the radical, revolutionary one.
“Empowerment” is a notion that women contort, reframe or rationalize their experiences of abuse to accommodate.
“Empowerment” is acquiescing to the deception that the arena we’re operating within is ours, or has a purpose outside of surveillance and control.
“Empowerment” often masks profound trauma.
“Empowerment” is a proclamation of obedience.
No one can “empower” another person.
Anyone who claims to want to “empower” you is, by definition, asserting their dominance-over.
Authentic power is both irrefutably objective, and eternally ephemeral.
Authentic power cannot be conferred, or awarded, or sanctioned.
Authentic power never needs to be argued for, or conceded to, or insisted upon.
Authentic power is embodied and radiated.
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