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No such thing as 'good female empowerment'


Are you kidding me?

Are people still peddling all this femafascist nonsense?

Look, if someone is already strong, they don't need 'empowerment', right? Also, the woman in this movie is not shown to be very powerful, just very lucky. How many times does she scream and gets protected and rescued by a man? Of course any 'powerful' things the females do here, are completely unrealistic, so I don't see how this movie can 'empower' anyone.

Also, why is it never 'male empowerment'?

Isn't talking about 'empowerment' saying that women are inherently WEAK, so they need 'empowerment' to level up to normal level?

You CAN empower people, for example, with information. Dog handlers and 'owners' are often weak, and treat their dogs very softly, so the dogs can't take them seriously. You can change this by telling them they need to be calm and assertive for their dogs to take them seriously, then train them to use this side of them.

However, it's not really giving them power per se, it's just letting them access their already EXISTING power - the power was inside of us all along, we just didn't use it!

Now, what about this movie is 'female empowerment'? The fact that she absolutely needs Jack Colton to protect her from snakes, paramilitary nuts with guns, the jungle and such? That she just happens to stumble upon solutions, like the vines-across-the-river (that the antagonists somehow can't make happen)?

In the end, you can't empower someone, you can only help them access and find out how to use their already existing power.

This means, people are already powerful (regardless of bodily gender), they just didn't realize what power they have inside of them. Everyone has 'assertive' side, but they don't always know how to access that without some training. Watch some 'Dog Whisperer' or 'Cesar 911' to see how real 'empowerment' works.

Why do people praise 'female empowerment', when no one can even define what a 'woman' is?

What's so good or special about women being powerful? Why can't we admit that women are already powerful, just in a DIFFERENT way than men are powerful?

Women have a powerful 'yin' power, men have powerful 'yang' power. They are opposite and complementary forces. To put it simply, yang expands, yin contracts. Those are universal forces that keep everything in existence .. well, in existence. Down to the sub-atomic level, these are the fundamental cosmic forces.

Something either expands or contracts. Space is yang, because it's freely-flowing expansive energy, planets are yin, because they are contracted mass and keep contracting into a tighter mass. These forces are equally powerful.

Obviously a human being is more complicated than that, so no one is fully yin or fully yang, we all have both forces in multiple ways on multiple levels, each chakra circles a certain direction, which makes it either yin or yang, and with genders, they circle the opposite directions, but both genders still have both forces.

These forces and their power is fundamentally seen in psychology, behaviour and physique - plus of course the obvious, genitalia. A hole describes yin, a protrusion describes yang. Put them together, and the miracle of birth happens.

Men seek to expand, so that's why they go out of the house to 'conquer the world', and then return to base to rest. This base should invigorate the man so they can go out into the world to use their expansive energy again the next day.

Women seek to contract, so they are interested in decorating the home and biologically and psychologically, they are more fit to take care of details, repetitive tasks and stay at home with the babies/kids.

Obviously, us being souls first, and using physical bodies second, as a temporary thing, we don't always fit these biological/psychological/behavioural roles completely. A woman can yearn to travel, a man can wish to be a decorative designer and to just stay at home and tinker with a computer.

This is probably where all the shaming comes from, 'the nerd living in their mom's basement that never goes out'. It's a great shame for a yang being to never expand and go out, but it's never a shame for a woman for some reason.

Female empowerment? What is that supposed to even mean, realistically speaking? How do you give someone any power, and why is it SO important to 'empower' females (don't women HATE being called females anyway?), but not males?

If you look at the world, women already HAVE all the powers they possibly can have, while men don't. Women can b1tchslap men and screamnag in strangers' faces without anyone punching back. This is a VERY powerful privilege to have, men can't even dream of doing that.

Women have institutions, governmental programs, everyone respects a 'mom', and this whole 'boss b1tch'-stuff has gotten out of hand. Yet females need more power?

Tell me, WHAT do females need power for, what power do they NOT have that men have?

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Women can do any job (at least legally speaking nothing stops them from being a sewage worker or a fisherman in high seas if they want to), women have all the human rights, heck, women can wear PANTS, but men still can't wear DRESSES.

So who has more power in the world? Man slaps a woman, and 1875 simp-men will INSTANTLY attack the man.

A woman slaps a man - absolutely NO ONE will attack the woman. Not even other women!

Women are already more powerful than men (seriously, this kind of articles exist), and somehow yet they lose to 'trans women' every single time.

Women are already more protected and privileged class than children, and yet they want and need more power?

Who controls a man-female-relationship? Tell me, who decides things in the family these days? WHO HAS THE POWER ALREADY?!

Why would you need female empowerment? Wouldn't it benefit EVERYONE, even women, if simply HUMANS had power, and neither gender could just conquer the other easily?

Women have ALL the cards now, when it comes to reproduction, mating, pairing, having sex, selling sex (look at all the Onlyfans millionaires), having kids, etc... women have all the power in the workplace, you can't sexually harass a woman, but you can harass a man.

What power do women still want but not have? Do ALL women have to be CEOs since birth before this femafascist sickness ends and all these stupid lies are stopped?

What will have to happen that people stop encouraging 'female empowerment' and can say 'now women are powerful enough'?

What's the reason for celebrating 'female empowerment' in a world where women already have all the power, and men are the oppressed class?

There's no excuse to hit a woman, but plenty of excuses to hit a man.
Stop violence against women, but not against men.

These are the PREVALENT messages everywhere, you go, girl, but never 'you go, boy'. So why would you want to pour more gasoline into that dumpsterfire? 'Good rich people enrichment'? REALLY??

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My, my, my, my, my, you sure do have the CURIOSITY factor in you, don't you avortac?

Also, a lot of this stuff... Even IF it was explained and spelled out, and there actually ARE studies on a lot of this as well as typically banal truth that has been around for thousands of years etc, it will be up to YOU to make sense of, and please don't confuse "understanding" with "justification" or even "satisfying narrative" etc.

And also. Did you arguably NEVER get told, nor did it logically occur to you, for instance, that woman are generally physically weaker than men and that men sadly often had this natural advantage and were the biggest causes of violence where women in large amount suffered sadly at their hands? And that of course partially this means that "Stop violence against women" would be the stronger focus of such groups? Is it really so hard to grasp, understand, imagine.

And does it really bother and surprise you this much that you write so much in search of the ultimate truth and explanation to matters sometimes both simple and complex overall?

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"These are the PREVALENT messages everywhere, you go, girl, but never 'you go, boy'"
You REALLY don't have a clue here, do you?

Out of curiosity also, avortac 4, are you male or female?

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So, how's the real world working out for you, when everything you see when you leave your house is incongruent with your core beliefs?

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