While I take your point, I don't think we can avoid the fact that the the empowered are men and the disempowered are women. These gents hold the view that, since they carry a Y chromosome, they have the right to push around those who don't. So there's an overlap here between the abstract principle (state vs individual, powerful vs powerless) and the concrete, flesh and blood reality (male vs female).
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Date: 2004-11-08 05:04 pm (UTC)