This is disempowering to women and the opposite of feminist.
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"It can be disempowering to be so precarious," Aschoff said.
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"It felt infantilizing and disempowering," a former staff member says.
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By insinuating otherwise, Amazon is disempowering and even endangering those employees.
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"The way this planning is being done is disempowering," she said.
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But when the questions stop mattering, then it's disempowering to voters.
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Popular Force called the arrest a "coup d'etat" aimed at disempowering Congress.
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The taxi app model is disempowering; the riders have no real advantages.
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Is a boss disempowering you in your day-to-day decision making?
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" Jacobs felt sad and sometimes bitter about this pattern of change: "It's disempowering.
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"I know how disempowering it can feel to not feel financially literate," Washington says.
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It is incredibly disempowering and disenchanting for a country with a young film industry.
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They weren't trying to be disempowering, but 'fitting in' was the way they knew.
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Unlike other Disney films, they are mostly devoid of sexist themes and disempowering relationships.
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Technology feels disempowering because we haven't built it around an honest view of human nature.
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Technologies largely thought to universally empower the "voiceless" are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
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Nor was disempowering the feckless but well-connected tycoons behind some of India's powerful conglomerates.
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While millionaires ask themselves empowering questions, the middle class tend to lean toward disempowering ones.
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While millionaires ask themselves empowering questions, the middle class tends to lean toward disempowering ones.
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Stand With Your SistersIf you've ever been sexually harassed, you know how disempowering it can feel.
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Though most horror games have selectively disempowering situations, there is almost always a way to triumph.
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But he has also, crucially, flipped a conventional, disempowering idea of Native victimhood on its head.
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Common fears include AI replacing human workers, disempowering us, and becoming a threat to our very existence.
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"Empowering questions ask what you can do, and disempowering questions ask what you can't do, " Smith writes.
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"Empowering questions ask what you can do, and disempowering questions ask what you can't do, " Smith writes.
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This is almost a lose-lose model, where riders suffer and drivers remain unprofitable, a true disempowering model.
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By Adichie deciding to imbue that word, or the role, with lesser meaning, she is effectively disempowering those women.
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We also considered the parallels between the disempowering messages that artists receive about money and those that specifically women receive.
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Disempowering front-line counselors whose input gets ignored by physicians who prematurely discharge at-risk veterans, sometimes against their will.
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Through our creative language, we create a positive conversation that can be inspiring, amazing, or uplifting — not disempowering or depressing.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — It was a disempowering experience at a large corporate organization that prompted Morgan Coleman to become an entrepreneur.
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I interviewed a renowned hypnotherapist for "Find the Fire" to understand why we continually let our disempowering inner monologue take over.
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Meanwhile, Buffett's close partner in weighing the responsibilities of the megawealthy, Bill Gates, has more recently been voicing comfort with disempowering billionaires.
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But the choice of words here is just so ill-advised...and tone-deaf and objectifying and marginalizing and condescending and disempowering.
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Trump's most fervent supporters want the return of traditional industries, the retreat of intrusive government and the disempowering of the current elite.
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She hasn't wanted to admit that she loved and cared for someone involved in disempowering her and destroying the city she protects.
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"I think we risk disempowering students if where we stop is just a solid scientific understanding of the climate crisis," he said.
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While I have spent my career empowering people and turning them into leaders, Washington has been disempowering people and turning them into followers.
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Mr Rehman does not blame Mr Modi but sees an acceleration under BJP rule of a slow disempowering of India's non-Hindu minorities.
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"We were, unintentionally, disempowering the people who create the content in the first place quite at odds with our core mission," Shnaidman said.
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In the 1980s, senior CIA officials helped organize the Iran-contra conspiracy, a large-scale covert operation aimed at disempowering the U.S. Congress.
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What makes J.Lo the ultimate sex symbol, though, is that she consistently rejects all the disempowering bullshit that usually comes with the label.
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"Unfortunately, it can often feel disempowering for a transgender person to disclose to other people that they are transgender," reads GLAAD's tips for allies.
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"I understand the push to get rid of 'sorry' & 'just' but I'm 100% sick of treating women's language tics as inherently disempowering," she added.
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If we took that away, we'd see a concurrent reduction in crime; we'd be disempowering a lot of often very unpleasant organized crime groups.
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"It's disempowering for me to see something that I know is wrong and not say something and not indicate my disapproval for it," Brooks said.
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By dismantling Palestinian freedoms, by disempowering his people, Abbas has been undoing the foundations of statehood and sapping the energy that comes with personal agency.
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Lying to those with whom we have intimate relationships — as well as keeping important truths from them — is disrespectful, in part because it is disempowering.
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The suggestion that "girlie-ness" is inherently disempowering furthers the bullshit notion that in order for a woman to succeed professionally, she can't be too feminine.
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Chicago's feminist critics saw a sense of gender essentialism in her art, arguing that Chicago's vaginal images were disempowering for reducing women to their biological parts.
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But the process changed for the grant program that included the Boone County project, giving the secretary far more discretion — and disempowering both career and political staff.
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But the bottom line is that it's disempowering to tell women that the marketplace is fundamentally tilted against them or to imply that the problem is insurmountable.
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Telling your loved one to simply leave may feel like the quickest way to help, but giving point-blank instructions to a domestic abuse survivor can be disempowering.
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I think one really important aspect that comes up in any form of the attention economy, whether it's disempowering or empowering, is assuming that attention is like currency.
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" With that being said, he isn't oblivious to the control he forfeits whenever a daddy whips out his authority, admitting that it can be "disempowering and very emasculating.
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The United States is a deadly, difficult and disempowering place for people of color, and health care policy plays a chief role in sustaining this state of affairs.
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Local news may need more than is offered here, though disempowering the hedge funds and conglomerates that have wreaked so much havoc is a good place to start.
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"I think a lot of political writing is written from this high-perch, omniscient view that it's just not accessible, and it's disempowering at times," Duca told me.
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"It's very disempowering to think, okay, yeah, he'll get impeached, and then we'll go to the Senate and nothing will happen," Susan Lawrence in Chicago told the Tribune.
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"Much of the 'Internet of Restaurants,'" as we agree to call it, "is extractive and disempowering while pretending to be about giving control to employees and owners," he says.
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"As I said previously, it was both disempowering and ahistorical to have Sojourner using only one hand to express herself […] The engaged hands, the open mouth speak volumes," she added.
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This has been seen in some quarters of the U.K. media as a disempowering slight to Hammond's autonomy and throwing into question his ability to hold on to his role.
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During the 20th century, inequality in America decreased when unionization increased, but economic transformations and political attacks have crippled organized labor, emboldening corporate interests and disempowering the rank and file.
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In a series of tense speeches, some longtime DNC members argued that disempowering superdelegates in the nominating process — a priority for Bernie Sanders supporters — would effectively "disenfranchise" some 200 black superdelegates.
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This version of empowerment can be actively disempowering: It's a series of objects and experiences you can purchase while the conditions determining who can access and accumulate power stay the same.
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They will demonstrate the thrill of collective power to a new generation of workers, many of whom have never known work to be anything other than a disempowering and underpaid grind.
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"Because we know how disempowering it is to not have a voice in our community and how sacred getting that voice back is," they wrote in The Tampa Bay Times this week.
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While having both partners invested in the fertility process can be helpful, the idea that an algorithm calculates and informs my partner when I want to have sex is not scientific, it's disempowering.
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While there are times when allyship is valuable, removing Jewish voices from the center of the conversation around anti-Semitism does the exact opposite — it is disempowering, it is marginalizing, and it is dangerous.
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Mr. Carranza has talked about the importance of parent empowerment, but nothing is more disempowering than being met with silence when trying to get answers and assistance for what should be a straightforward problem.
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"It essentially decimated communities and represents an assimilationist agenda intent on dismantling, disempowering and stripping away culturally appropriate and community-driven initiatives at the grass-roots level," said Olivia Nigro, an Indigenous-rights activist.
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I believe she has become a weapon in the culture wars, deployed to disprove the lived experiences of discrimination of thousands and thousands of women of color across the country, disempowering them in the process.
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Envoy proliferation has had two pernicious consequences — disempowering regional bureaus (which should rather be reinforced) by removing important diplomatic issues from their control and ensuring regional bureaus don't in practice follow "special envoy" issues as closely.
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The irony, however, is that nothing could be more disempowering than to teach women that men are their enemy, and that a potential sexual assault is an unstated threat in almost all aspects of male-female interaction.
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So this summer, when we took a road trip, with our mother and Kirsten's husband and two children, to women's history sites, I found myself in the slightly disempowering back seat while on a search for empowerment.
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Liberals frequently critique both the electoral college and the Senate as undemocratic: a means of disempowering the country's more diverse urban and suburban majority while giving undue weight to the voices of a rural, heavily white minority.
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So many women say that 'I just have to put up with it because I couldn't do anything to change it,' so it's totally a disempowering move for women to believe in this essential difference between men and women.
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And since Israel has no separation of church and state, this monopoly grants the rabbinate the power to impose a fundamentalist version of Judaism on Conservative, Reform, and secular Jews, chronically disempowering women and refusing to recognize liberal conversions.
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These proposals come in many flavors, but two common strains are making the party more democratic (opening up nominating processes, disempowering elite superdelegates, etc.) and turning away from "identity politics" (offering more "universal" proposals rather than appealing to subgroups of voters).
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But even in rare cases where perpetrators are convicted and punished severely, many victims report that their experience was retraumatizing and disempowering: Their story was confined to the rigid strictures of a prosecutor's narrative and raked over on cross-examination.
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When he first aimed those impulses at shaking up Saudi domestic politics — disempowering the religious establishment, permitting women to drive, opening up Saudi social life, moving the economy away from its overdependence on oil — M.B.S. won plaudits in the West.
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During her time covering the cannabis industry, Greene had developed a belief that providing medical and recreational marijuana access to all people could help fight racial injustice in the United States by disempowering what she saw as the disastrous war on drugs.
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" In Rauch's telling, idealistic but naive political reformers, displeased by the nasty scent of corruption emanating from this type of politics, spent decades "demonizing and disempowering political professionals and parties, which is like spending decades abusing and attacking your own immune system.
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As candidates talk about income inequality — an issue discussed during both Democratic debates — they cannot ignore the gender and racial biases that fuel our country's wealth and income gaps by disempowering half the population and penalizing women for the childbearing and caregiving work they do.
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Many of the core decisions revolve around how you teach Daniel to handle those disempowering power structures: Is it fuck the police and live on the outskirts of society, or compliance and assimilation for the sake of staying within the relative safety of civilization?
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What makes Death Stranding a powerful experience is how it uses its agency-granting power to make you bored, or confused, or scared, or awed — to cycle you through a series of disempowering states, affecting you in a way that movies can't quite accomplish.
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"Protesting Bill Cosby was important for us because he is a man who has been disempowering women's bodies for decades and in being naked today, I was symbolically taking back the ownership of all the victims' bodies and redefining it as a political tool as opposed to a sexual object," she continued.
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"The fact is there is nothing, absolutely nothing, more demoralizing and disempowering to any citizen of any nation than the belief the system is rigged against them and that people in positions of power are -- to use a diplomatic term of art -- crooks who are stealing the future of their own people," Kerry said.
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Social media in its present form—that is, a disparate network of privately owned websites functioning as a public space, the content of which is subject to manipulation by advertising algorithms powered by personal information extracted from users—is as profoundly, maddeningly disempowering as it is a vehicle for personal enlightenment, community engagement, and social organization.
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"There's certainly been a lot of disempowering news surrounding sex as of late, and we feel that in order to reclaim our sexual experiences — focusing on those moments that made us feel open and safe is a helpful way to begin to better understand ourselves and our bodies," Alex Fine, CEO of Dame Products, said in a statement shared with Refinery29.
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The contrast is further accentuated when you look at the non-LuckyChap productions Robbie has appeared in since I, Tonya: There's Mary Queen of Scots, a story of two historical women monarchs that somehow manages to feel disempowering and dull, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in which Robbie plays a bubbly, near-silent Sharon Tate amid a classically masculinist Tarantino script.
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For the top emerging markets news, double click on - - - - Some of the main stories out in the South African press: - President Ramaphosa seeks to stop public protector action against public enterprises minister Pravin Gordan - Energy Minister Mentashe says shutdown of nuclear medicine plant reckless and suspicious - Competition commission investigates telecoms firm Blue Label for disempowering small businesses - Nedbank CEO proposes cash injection and debt for equity swop to save Eskom
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As Amanda Taub wrote for Vox last year, plenty of professors are not terrified of their liberal students — and if their jobs are really so insecure that they could be toppled by student complaints (which are perennial and often unrelated to identity politics), then professors should be a lot more worried about how universities have been steadily disempowering faculty by slashing tenure jobs and relying on poorly paid adjuncts.
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We see the impact of the macro environment and new technology, which may be disenabling and disempowering to our client groups that range from the child to youth, to adulthood and then old age.
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25 Nov. 2008 . Feminist therapists argue that many problems that arise in therapy are due to disempowering social forces; thus the goal of therapy is to recognize these forces and empower the client. In a feminist therapy setting the therapist and client work as equals.
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Victims tend to feel their partner has nearly total control over them, greatly affecting the power dynamic in a relationship, empowering the perpetrator, and disempowering the victim. Victims often suffer from depression, putting them at increased risk of eating disorders, suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse.
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Parecon might reduce efficiency in the workplace. For one, expert and exceptional workers (e.g. exceptional surgeons and scientists) would not be performing their tasks full-time. Participatory economics would expect them to share in "disempowering work" and would not offer opportunities to seek additional compensation for their high ability or finding solutions to problems.
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The partnership model consists of a democratic and egalitarian structure in both the family and state or tribe, with hierarchies of actualization where power is empowering rather than disempowering (as in hierarchies of domination). There is also gender partnership and a low degree of abuse and violence, as it is not needed to maintain rigid top-down rankings.
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The musical engages with ideas relating to human values in the face of capitalist culture, disempowering those who are enveloped with motivations of personal monetary gain and overlook moral values. It serves as a social commentary of commodity fetishism.Leigh, Mary K., and Kevin K. Durand, eds. Marxism and the Movies: Critical Essays on Class Struggle in the Cinema.
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But this vision and the way their politics are > enacted within the organization and life of those working for them is very > much in conflict. As a working class lesbian, I thought I had finally found > a political movement which included me. What I found instead was an > oppressive, disempowering, misogynistic machine. All my decisions were made > for me by someone else.
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Thus workers with disempowering jobs can at best ratify proposals by empowered workers, and have little reason to participate in collective decision making. Workers with empowering jobs are a third class, "coordinator class" that does not own the means of production but has more power than menial workers. This class exists in current and past capitalist, socialist and cooperative economies. Coordinator jobs include political office, management, law, medicine, accounting, and research.
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He felt that service encounters could be systematized through planning, optimal processes, consistency, and capital intensive investments. This model was the foundation of the success of McDonald's and many other mass service providers in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Unfortunately, the application of assembly line techniques to service provision had several undesirable consequences. Employees found working under these conditions disempowering, resulting in low morale, high staff turnover, and reduced service quality.
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When the troubles began, the chapter had more rights than ever before, but now existential questions about their position were being posed. Although some of the canons may have sympathized with the Protestant faith, the demands of the peasant, which implied disempowering the canons, met with fierce resistance. The commander of the League's forces, Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg, was a loyal, but also ruthless military leader. Weigand's supporters were rewarded with properties confiscated from wealthy families in Bamberg.
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Such policies give greater power and consideration towards people who work in the paid sector, and less towards people who work in the unpaid sector. Another political issue surrounding the double burden is what sort of policies directly or indirectly affect those who do domestic work. Some policies that companies have, such as a lower rate for part-time workers or firing workers when they get pregnant can be seen as disempowering women. Debate as to whether this is gender segregation continues.
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The latter then launched a second "eastern campaign" to put down the rebellion, and defeated the rebels in three years, killing or disempowering their leaders. In doing so, he also further expanded the Zhou kingdom into eastern China, transforming it into an empire using the new Fengjian system. Edward L. Shaughnessy called the rebellion "a succession crisis that has come to be seen as defining moment not only for the Western Zhou dynasty but for the entire history of Chinese statecraft".
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NYPD vehicle during the George Floyd protests. The police abolition movement is a political movement, largely in the United States, that advocates replacing policing with other systems of public safety. Police abolitionists believe that policing, as a system, is inherently flawed and cannot be reformed—a view that rejects the ideology of police reformists. While reformists seek to address the ways in which policing occurs, abolitionists seek to transform policing altogether through a process of disbanding, disempowering, and disarming the police.
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The book was released in the context of the dispute in the newly resurgent anarchist movement between critics of civilisation (primarily anarcho-primitivists exemplified by John Zerzan) and its supporters (notably Murray Bookchin). Although sharply disagreeing on the merits of civilisation, technology and language, both Zerzan and Bookchin derided postmodernism as disempowering the individual and reinforcing the existing order. Another significant factor in the intellectual climate of the book's release was the rediscovery in the 1990s of anarchist theory within academia.
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In municipal government a Board of Control is an executive body that usually deals with financial and administrative matters. The idea is that a small body of four or five people is better able to make certain decisions than a large, unwieldy city council. Boards of Control were introduced in many North American municipalities in the early 20th century as a product of the municipal reform movement. They proved unpopular with many as they tended to centralize power in a small body while disempowering city councils.
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This allows women to empower themselves even more and have a type of vision that gives them equal rights. The biggest reason why this is seen as a threat by traditional machismo is because once these women are empowered, they realize that they have the same rights as men do therefore disempowering machismo completely. The fact that exoticos can physically challenge a man in the ring and physically challenge male masculinity is what makes the role of exoticos so crucial to the transformation of social norms.
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Thereafter, the woman's role has come to be limited to sexual and commercial labour; satisfying the sexual needs of men, working in the fields, carrying loads, tending babies and preparing food. The disempowering colonial ‘ideology of domesticity’ as espoused by the practice of ‘housewification’ provided the springboard for women's educational imbalance in parts of Africa.Gaidzwanwa, R. (1992). "Bourgeois Theories of Gender and Feminism and their Shortcomings with Reference to Southern African Countries", in Meena, R. (ed.) Gender in Southern Africa: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues, Harare, Sape Books.
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As the System colonises the lifeworld most enterprises are not driven by the motives of their members. The bureaucratic disempowering and desiccation of spontaneous processes of opinion and will formation expands the scope for engineering mass loyalty and makes it easier to uncouple political decision making from concrete, identity forming contexts of life. The system does this by rewarding or coercing that which legitimates it from the cultural spheres. Such conditions of public patronage invisibly negate the freedom that is supposedly available in the cultural field.
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Disempowering usual perceptions of culture, Lhakar started to use art, literature, poetry and music as a tool to gain greater political rights. They are using aspects of traditional Tibetan culture, such as expressing their faith in the Dalai Lama, and love of their homeland. Songs with politically charged lyrics or music videos with images of the Dalai Lama became more widely circulated and known. This upsurge in the public consumption of Tibetan music and poetry has spawned a modern renaissance in art and literature across the plateau.
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Some spirit guides are persons who have lived many former lifetimes, paid their karmic debts, and advanced beyond a need to reincarnate. Many devotees believe that spirit guides are chosen on "the other side" by human beings who are about to incarnate and wish assistance. Some early modern Spiritualists did not favor the idea of spirit guides. Spiritualist author and medium E.W. Wallis, writing in A Guide to Mediumship and Psychic Unfoldment, expressed the opinion that the notion of spirit guides is disempowering and disrespectful to both spirits and living people.
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Kurzweil's first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, was published in 1990. It forecast the demise of the already crumpling Soviet Union due to new technologies such as cellular phones and fax machines disempowering authoritarian governments by removing state control over the flow of information. In 2005, Mikhail Gorbachev told Kurzweil that emerging decentralized electronic communication "was a big factor" for fostering democracy in the Soviet Union. Kurzweil extrapolated the performance of chess software to predict that computers would beat the best human players "by the year 2000".
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The New Testament states that Paul was himself imprisoned on several occasions by the Roman authorities, stoned by the Pharisees and left for dead on one occasion, and was eventually taken to Rome as a prisoner. Peter and other early Christians were also imprisoned, beaten and harassed. The First Jewish Rebellion, spurred by the Roman killing of 3,000 Jews, led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, the end of Second Temple Judaism (and the subsequent slow rise of Rabbinic Judaism ), and the disempowering of the Jewish persecutors.
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Merida as she appeared when it was announced she would be joining the Disney Princess line-up In May 2013, Disney released a traditional animation-style redesign of Merida in preparation for her coronation as Disney's 11th princess. The redesign of the character featured a slimmer waist, more revealing neckline, larger eyes and a sparkly dress. Feminist groups criticized the makeover for allegedly disempowering Merida, sparking outrage from mothers and feminist groups who saw the new Merida as "an overly sexualized pin-up version of her former self." Critics were also very critical of the makeover, saying it turned Merida into "just another princess".
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The concept gained momentum over time and was eventually exercised in an almost cult-like manner. Leaders in the movement were required to be addressed by titles "Brother" and "Sister", which had a side effect of distancing them socially even further from the ordinary members in the movement. "Brother Howard" announced that he was in "a submitted relationship" to the CGM apostolic group of Bob Mumford, Ern Baxter, Charles Simpson, Derek Prince and Don Basham. While the teachings appeared to be biblical and promoted disciplined living, the result for non- leaders was a disempowering of their abilities and a neglect of their individual gifts and insights.
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The same villagers were then forced to relocate in 1965 when coal mines opened, again in 1980 when the National Thermal Power Corporation broke ground on a thermal power project, and once more in 2009, when the Essar Power MP broke ground on a new plant. Despite being displaced as many as five times, families forced out by the construction of Rihand never found a new permanent home. Enduring such upheavals caused psychic harm in addition to the precipitous drop in living standards. Parshuram Ray goes into further detail when discussing the traumas caused by displacement: > The long drawn out, dehumanising [sic], disempowering and painful process of > displacement has led to widespread traumatic psychological and socio- > cultural consequences.
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According to Martha Nussbaum, one central human functional capability is being able to hold property of both land and movable goods. In various nations, women are not full equals under the law, which means they do not have the same property rights as men; the rights to make a contract; or the rights of association, mobility, and religious liberty. Assets are primarily owned by husbands or are used for household production or consumption, neither of which help women with loan repayments. In order to refund their loans, women are usually required to undergo the 'disempowering' process of having to work harder as wage laborers, while also encountering a growing gendered resource divide at the domestic level.
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This process is also referred to in terms of deficit discourse, or the "disempowering patterns of thought, language and practice that represent people in terms of deficiencies and failures" [The Lowitja Institute 1]. Most prevalent in the curriculum as the national program of education, by narrating that Indigenous peoples are biologically lacking, whether this be in ambition, hygiene, morals, humanity, and presenting colonisation as a way of "saving the savages", Indigenous peoples are presumed as inferior to our non-Indigenous counterparts [Justice 2]. This translates quite obviously into how Indigenous students will be seen by and treated as such in the classroom. The achievements of Indigenous students are read as proof of successful assimilation into white ideals and, in turn, their failures as inherent to our cultural character.
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Succession issues were constant in Jin as far back as seventh century BCE. Even when, for example, King Xi of Zhou used his royal clout to give legitimacy to Wu of Quwo as the rightful duke of Jin in 678 BCE, succession issues continued to arise. At the same time that the Jin duke was conquering new lands, a process of "subinfeudation" or "rear vassalage" occurred in the early and middle parts of the Spring and Autumn period, wherein aristocratic title and territory were awarded to vassals loyal to Jin, rather than to the Zhou royalty. However, Jin was unique among the major states in a major respect; whereas other states often enfeoffed the cadet branches of the ruling house, Jin had a policy of exiling or disempowering its own cadet houses.
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On 24 June, after police prevented Carević and the other removed opposition-led local authorities from entering the municipal building, and after the entire old local administration was arrested for resisting, there were major riots and clashes between Police Special Unit and protesters supporting Carević and his administration. The police responded violently towards the peaceful protesters, with several police crackdowns taking place, resulting in beatings and arrests, with numerous cases of police abuse of office, brutality and violence against protesting citizens and political activists were reported.Tokom haosa u Budvi: Policajci tukli preko mjere?, Vijesti After the convincing victory of his list at the local elections in Budva on 30 August 2020, Marko Carević remains the mayor of Budva, once again disempowering the disputed DPS-led local government in Budva.
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Labor spies are usually agents employed by corporations, or hired through the services of union busting agencies, for the purpose of monitoring, disempowering, subverting, or destroying labor unions, or undermining actions taken by those unions. > [The labor spy] capitalizes the employer's ignorance and prejudice and > enters the [workplace] specifically to identify the leaders of the Labor > organization, to propagandize against them and blacklist them and to disrupt > and corrupt their union. He is under cover, disguised as a worker, hired to > betray the workers' cause.Richard C. Cabot, Introduction, The Labor Spy—A > Survey of Industrial Espionage, by Sidney Howard and Robert Dunn, Under the > Auspices of the Cabot Fund for Industrial Research, published in the > Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, Volume 71, > Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 1921, p.
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Fear surrounding young people's use of social media sites is heavily based on moral panic and places restrictions on their agency and freedom, disempowering them. Forty three percent of the teenagers surveyed said that they wish they could disconnect from all of it. Some said that they want to go back to a time where there was no such thing as Facebook. 49 percent said that they would rather communicate in person, 33 percent said they would rather text, and 7 percent said they would rather communicate through social media. The CEO and founder of Common Sense media quotes “Today’s 13-17 year olds are the first generation to go through their entire teen years with such an array of digital devices and platforms.” Social media websites have become worldwide and will continue to expand as the years go on (Common Sense, 2012).
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Police abolitionists see abolition as a process of disbanding, disempowering, and disarming the police in the transition to a society without police. This may take several forms for abolitionists, such as imagining alternatives to policing, directly challenging the legitimacy and roles of policing, resisting liberal attempts to co-opt, incorporate, or reconcile the uncompromising objective to abolish the police, and engaging in practices which undermine the authority and power of the police, such as the defunding the police. As stated by academic Alex S. Vitale, police abolition is a process, rather than a singular event: > Well, I'm certainly not talking about any kind of scenario where tomorrow > someone just flips a switch and there are no police. What I'm talking about > is the systematic questioning of the specific roles that police currently > undertake, and attempting to develop evidence-based alternatives so that we > can dial back our reliance on them.
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Rosenhan published his findings in Science, in which he criticized the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis and the disempowering and demeaning nature of patient care experienced by the associates in the study. In addition, he described his work in a variety of news appearances, including to the BBC: The experiment is argued to have "accelerated the movement to reform mental institutions and to deinstitutionalize as many mental patients as possible". Many respondents to the publication defended psychiatry, arguing that as psychiatric diagnosis relies largely on the patient's report of their experiences, faking their presence no more demonstrates problems with psychiatric diagnosis than lying about other medical symptoms. In this vein, psychiatrist Robert Spitzer quoted Seymour S. Kety in a 1975 criticism of Rosenhan's study: > If I were to drink a quart of blood and, concealing what I had done, come to > the emergency room of any hospital vomiting blood, the behavior of the staff > would be quite predictable.
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Others, such as Rachel Kramer Bussel, see Levy as largely ignoring much of the female-empowered sexual expression of the last 20 years, or misinterpreting it as internalization of male fantasy. Kara Jesella argued that sex-positivity may not necessarily be empowering, but it may also not be disempowering. Dorchen Leidholdt argues that "sex" (the way sexuality is expressed in society) must be understood as a social construct defined by patriarchal social structures, and therefore must be scrutinized; she writes, "If you understand that sex is socially constructed—which we do—and if you see that male supremacy does the constructing—which we see—and if the sex in question is the sex men use to establish their dominance over women, then yes we're against it." According to Ann Ferguson, sex-positive feminists' only restriction on sexual activity should be the requirement of consent, yet she argues that sex-positive feminism has provided inadequate definitions of consent.
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Despite the stereotypes surrounding feminists, and the dominate social narratives surrounding feminism at the time, women like Zora Neale Hurston and Emma Goldman have argued that by using philosophical ideas of aesthetics and ideas of femininity, it is possible to empower and analyze the ways that gender works in daily life. Lipstick feminism embraces the concepts of womanhood and female sexuality emitted from a woman's body. Scholars of lipstick feminism believe that women have a right to act in accordance with passion and sexuality. Lipstick feminism also seeks to reclaim certain derogatory words and turn them into powerful tools for their cause such as the word 'slut' as seen in the SlutWalk movement. It developed in part as a response to the ideological backlash against radical varieties of second-wave feminism, with the negative stereotypes it generated of the “ugly feminist” or the “anti-sex feminist”; in part the result of the belief that the successes of second-wave feminism had made it possible to reclaim aspects of femininity that had earlier been seen as disempowering, like make-up or stilettos.
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