I can see how a thing like this might be empowering to say to oneself -- but to turn it around and direct it at others as an expectation on them has the opposite effect.
Interesting that you brought up empowerment, because that's a key issue here. There are people out there who are quite happy to keep people where they are, because they benefit from it, and i believe some of them actively look for ways to misappropriate empowering speech into something that doesn't threaten their benefit.
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Date: 2006-08-29 05:19 pm (UTC)Interesting that you brought up empowerment, because that's a key issue here. There are people out there who are quite happy to keep people where they are, because they benefit from it, and i believe some of them actively look for ways to misappropriate empowering speech into something that doesn't threaten their benefit.