You see, it is not my mission to empower anybody. I cannot help but recognize that the word itself entails that power is being 'given' instead of revealed. I cannot give something that is already the very basis of who you -- who we -- are.
When I tell my husband how uneasy I feel at times walking alone on the street, he says he feels powerless, to which I agree. He can’t always be around to call out misogynistic assholes (and I wish he could), but why should there be discrimination towards women in the first place? Why should we ...