power-over

We can start by changing the very meaning of power from an oppressive power-over to an expansive concept I call the power-to.

Barbara Hannah Grufferman: Arianna And The Art Of Being Fearless Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2011

We can start by changing the very meaning of power from an oppressive power-over to an expansive concept I call the power-to.

Barbara Hannah Grufferman: Arianna And The Art Of Being Fearless Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2011

Because politics is negotiation of who gets power-over, and the wrong person getting power-over is the abusive one who inteferes with other people's freedom-from.

Politics Should Break Your Heart fantasyecho 2008

Like every other drug - especially power and power-over, to which it seems inextricably linked - violence is possessed with the ability to generate an ever-increasing and effectively insatiable appetite for itself.

The 'Unmanageability' of Violence 2007

Now, if another player, like Syria for instance, was equipped to be supplying large quantities of water, water for life too, not water for profit and "power-over", wouldn't that be an awful monkeywrench in the water plans of the cabal?????

The Mystery of Minot: Loose nukes and a cluster of dead airmen raise troubling questions 2007

Actual power dynamics of power-over, violence, and pain seem contrary to healthy human relationships, in my experience.

Bondage and Patriarchy 2006

Liking people who are bigger, stronger, and show signs of actively buying into a sytem of fixed power-over, in which your own group is the oppressed group is chock full of actual D/s possibilities.

Bondage and Patriarchy 2006

Specifically, I think that an eroticization of mutuality is a better and healthier sexuality than an eroticization of power dynamics power-over, powerlessness, violence and pain.

Bondage and Patriarchy 2006

The male always should have power-over in matters of sex just as he should in everything else.

(Very) Basic Economics and Abortion 2006

I think a style of discourse based in hatred and power-over is supportive of everything I hate, and that trying to treat everyone decently is profoundly more radical than othering and cruelty.

A Whiney Post About Faking Respectful Discourse 2006