power vs empowerment

Power is capacity, potential, ability, or wherewithal.

Empowerment is the authority or power given to someone to do something. But by whom? by someone with power, correct? Empowerment for women is whatever men tell them or whatever they allow to be "empowering", always in tune and subservient to their needs.

Thus, abominably, prostitution (euphemized as sex werk) is called "empowering". Wearing high heels in which you cannot run, you cannot make big strides and you definitely are in perpetual imbalance when walking are seen as empowering. Makeup is seen as "empowering". Without makeup we're just dumb, barefaced females, maybe? being choked during sex is "empowering" since it proves the female is strong and can withstand abuse and gaslighting (it's not abuse, it's a kink or bdsm). Having your genitalia waxed and stripped of all its hair is empowering, just like a baby's butt is!

what is with this insistence to call it empowering the thing to which we naturally pose resistance to? have your hair pulled out after a Brazillian waxing? - empowering! Have your labia cut and remolded to dainty measurements - empowerment! be sexually available to men whether you feel like it or not (sex "work") - empowerment! but where is the power in all this?

Enough with this word! empowerment needs to disappear from our vocabulary! empowerment is the cloth of the vassal that kneels and bows their head for "some" power. not "that" power, obviously, but only that kind of power which the male supremacy can do without. you don't hear female power - all you hear female empowerment - the diluted version of power, the acceptable kind of "power" that just like most things on this earth comes with a pink bow bearing more tax because it's for women. they do not care about your makeup, your shoes or your ability to show your genitalia unless it directly affects their coin and does not interfere with their ability to better herd, curtail and legislate your body. they all vocalize about the poorly clad woman who shivers in the cold - she is empowered to dare to shiver, they yell!. but no one talks about the multilayered, insulated, water-resistant clothing he has and his obvious lacks of shivers. lack of shivers aren't sexy, they say.

equality vs equity

Equality simply means everyone is treated the same exact way, regardless of need or any other individual difference. Equity, on the other hand, means everyone is provided with what they need to succeed.

like... do we need to yell at them and tell them that we do not need makeup and stilettos and 3 x year Brazillian waxes to succeed in life? We need healthcare and safe spaces for ourselves and access to education and food on our table so we don't need to resort to suck dick in an alley. but all this goes over their head. because if we all had this, then who will suck their dick in an alley? who will do only fans and be a "little girl" for a 60 year old "daddy" to pay their student loans or their rent or buy some medicine for their sick grandma? who indeed?