Power
The Patriarchal Promise means being in the possession of an abundant livelihood, influence, respect, a beautiful subservient woman and her sexuality (or several), and a family. In your sphere, whether it be public or private, you are the authority and you are owed not only respect but deference. (Indeed, when patriarchs express distress because they don’t…
Just because a woman who has what a lot of us want tells us what she does is empowering doesn’t make it so. Discerning between impact and intentions is key.
The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is an archetype women must comply with to get rights and resources AND a marketing strategy leveraging social status.
When we encourage or teach other women (or ourselves) to be The Perfect Woman, we are doing harm. The Perfect Woman is a form of violence against women.
If I don’t hate myself then I don’t struggle to love myself, you know? I don’t want body love. I want to be free to be body neutral.
The Trump campaign is using Ivanka’s “feminism,” and the language and promise of women’s liberation to advance and perpetuate injustice and a racist agenda.
The stay-safe sequence isn’t news to black people. This is my husband and my son and I still didn’t get it. I was complicit. No More.
I’m looking around at our empowerment spaces at the payment plans being offered and I’m seeing some arguably predatory practices.
Likability, authority. Marketing designed to automatically trigger particular behaviours has political consequences: we get in the habit of obeying.
When someone is trying to get us to like them and they have a commercial interest vested in us liking them, you need more information before proceeding.