{"id":588,"date":"2003-06-02T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2003-06-02T20:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/06\/02\/marginalization_and_power.html"},"modified":"2003-06-02T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2003-06-02T20:38:56","slug":"marginalization_and_power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/06\/02\/marginalization_and_power.html","title":{"rendered":"marginalization and power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had multiple conversations today concerning power management.  In all of these, we acknowledged that women tend to use more subtle mechanisms to derive and maintain power, while men tend to just bulldoze.  Backing up from this, i believe that what is relevant is not simply sex, but privilege.  The more privileged an individual is, the more that power can be taken for granted and the less creative one needs to be to acquire it.  Subtlety is an art, a subversive mechanism for overthrowing the norm.  Thus, the more intelligent marginalized individuals consistently use subtle means to reach the top.  Of course, this plays directly into my thoughts on context.  Context is necessary for engaging subtlety, but not for brute force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had multiple conversations today concerning power management. In all of these, we acknowledged that women tend to use more subtle mechanisms to derive and maintain power, while men tend to just bulldoze. Backing up from this, i believe that what is relevant is not simply sex, but privilege. The more privileged an individual is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}