Powerlessness
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"Within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy the experience of men dressing as women, appearing in drag, has always been regarded by the dominant heterosexist cultural gaze as a sign that one is symbolically crossing over from a realm of power into a realm of powerlessness."--bell hooks on Paris is Burning in a piece published in Black Hooks |
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- Lacking sufficient power or strength.
- You are powerless to stop me
- Lacking legal authority.
- The traffic warden was powerless to stop me driving away.
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