pensando en el poder

ive been thinking about empowerment lately. women´s empowerment especially. theres this one girl in my program who uses what seems like every possible event to talk about it. she always wants to bring up abortion issues, how women have real power and just generally has this air of the really loud neo-feminist doctrine. additionally, we went to a forum on environmental sustainability in chile, and they gave us fridge magnets that said, ¨mujer-- mejor contigo¨. Translation - Woman, it gets better with you.
Woman? Why just woman?
Someone explained that women are targeted here as an emerging social group. in fact, any group that isn´t the white male group is an emerging social group. women here seem to exist in a social status equivalent to women in 1959 America; they sort of sit on the cusp of being equal with men, and in many ways they are, but in general they still walk just a few steps behind.

overall women´s empowerment is important, but i find its place in my life to be omniscient. ive decided that truly empowered women hardly talk about being it, they just act empowered. i told someone once that i never had to learn about Girl Power, because when i was growing up the person providing for me, the most empowered person in my life was a woman--my mom. ive never considered that i might be less capable because of my gender, and i think to even address that discrepancy is to give it too much credit.

im a chick, so what. i still do what i want.