The Rules of POWER

[@CNS_0507]

“It’s not power if it comes at somebody else’s expense.” 👏👏👏

[@Sahalielove]

“Power over” is a great term I’ve heard.

[@Iquey]

It's artificially perpetuated power. Not true power. Limiting the free will of others is not ever sustainable. Resentment builds up over time.

[@indrinita]

Your and all the amazing decentering men channels are criminally underrated.

[@Lex2034-f7y]

Facts!!!

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

"The concept of womanhood keeps the system in place-that's why so many conservatives are really invested in trying to define womanhood, to determine who has power over whom." This is so profound, thank you!!

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

makes sense, also why arguing with them about it is so pointless. because it really just gives them more power at worst and at best its talking to a brick wall. so matt walsh types can suck a big one.

[@Mscocoapuffz]

There are so many creators that moved from TT to KZbin are dropping gems. I cannot wait for her podcast.

[@krystajung1441]

@@Mscocoapuffz Same!!!

[@StopThankReflect]

Explains why my beauty as a Black woman has been under attack… my beauty elevates me a bit, in turn, weakening the foundation 🤔

[@elegantempress1395]

This is so true. This is why the existence of a Beautiful Black Woman disorients the Racist White Man. They try to attribute her beauty to “white genes” or whatever cognitive dissonance reason that won’t disrupt their deeply held world view and racial bias.

[@FireSilver25]

💯

[@cokedust]

Same.

[@debrabusby6581]

Exactly I have dealt with that all of my life from yt and women of color including blk. It's like how dare you be this beautiful and blk . They will instantly start looking at you sideways and wanting to start trouble especially in the company of males

[@bensanderson7144]

It’s not your beauty, it’s your booty.

[@1984Astral]

In regards to the privileges attached to being beautiful: I won't say that I meet the insane beauty standards society holds, but I've noticed a marked difference between the way I'm treated when I dress nice/wear makeup/fix my hair versus when I don't wear makeup and dress down. There are privileges; unfamiliar men are more "chivalrous" (opening doors for me, making small talk, etc), more attention overall, people are friendlier (both men and women) and if I wanted a job in a place that prioritized looks (I'm a bartender, so clubs, trendy bars), I can get them more easily. But there are definitely DOWN SIDES. More sexual harassment and assaults (getting groped), men chasing me Just for casual sex, cattiness and hostility from women, not being taken seriously (people assuming I'm dumb and showing surprise when they find out I went to an Ivy League university or can speak intelligently, etc). Lately, I've gotten tired of dealing with men's sexual attention and women's jealousy. I've stopped wearing makeup at all and I've started to dress more comfortably. Women are kinder, the number of ill-intentioned men has decreased, and i feel like I'm taken more seriously. The downside is that I'm also ignored and sidelined more often in public, especially by men. It seems like non-beautiful women are just non-existent to the majority of men and they'll only expend energy to show the bare minimum of civility only to those women they find sexually desirable.

[@itsspringtime]

I've noticed the same phenomenon. It's really difficult to navigate because I enjoy dressing up and doing a lot with my makeup but it becomes such a headache because of how me presenting myself that way is read by thirsty men. I have not noticed much hostility from women as you have described. I may have to pay closer attention to that and see what comes up. The other thing that is unbearable about going out looking my best so to speak is the attention I get from clearly partnered men. They stare at me IN FRONT of their partners. Or engage with me in some way that is uncomfortable. The triangulation they do is EVIL and kills my soul. The pain I see in other women's eyes cuts me deep and makes me fear ever being with a man again. (I am divorced thank god)

[@f3042]

@@itsspringtimeI was telling my aunt this. When I was younger I didn’t take the marriage talk seriously because so many married men were inappropriate towards me. I just assumed all married men cheat. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@itsspringtime]

@f3042 I learned as I got older. I'm early 30s now. I never noticed when I was younger. I guess my head was in the clouds. But now I can't unsee it. I think like 90% of married men do cheat. I mean the stats for married men on OF is crazy. Ask a stripper. So many of the men that throw money at them are MARRIED. It's so depressing.

[@1984Astral]

@@itsspringtime As a bartender, I noticed that too with men who came to the bar with their partners. I would see the hurt look in the women's eyes, so I would start ignoring the men and focus on chatting with their wives/girlfriends instead, lol. They would instantly perk up and look so much happier!

[@Леонид-в6х]

Now i understand why poor men are so furious about a women with money she earned herself, house and status job. She dares to have more status than them. A woman.

[@NinaGothMambaNegra]

Thank you. As an austistic poor woman over 35 from a ghetto in Argentina, who went to research cult dynamics, pyramid schemes and conspiracy theories because race, class and gender are not thought in schools, this is the real answer to all the social schemes I was trying to understand my whole life. You are a true master with words. Thank you for sharing with us your power so we can actually put our power to action. THANK YOU!!!

[@StopThankReflect]

I think the beautiful women part is a top tier component of each of the segments in the women hierarchy

[@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90]

As a woman, I’ve never cared anything about the female structure created by patriarchy and while I hear what you’re saying, I’ve never ever thought any less of someone who didn’t look just like me. Never. I don’t understand it. I also believe that this structure is imploding even faster than patriarchy itself. I do think that the female structure was in place hard when women didn’t have rights. Because of exactly what you said. But in my opinion women are coming together and have been coming together bc it’s naturally what we do. Now, men ARE actively trying to pit women against each other and hold on to this structure with their podcasts and manospheres and they are also trying to hold it together through “beauty standards”. Men are scared. They are trying hard to hold onto their hierarchy but I personally see this whole thing is crumbling right in front of them especially bc women have been coming together, sharing their stories and leaving men behind altogether bc it was never just our ex, our dad, our uncles acting the way men do IT WAS ALL OF THEM. When women have basic rights we rise above them even in their own patriarchy. They’re are scrambling hard.

[@emmamartin4045]

More than half of WW in the US voted for Trump, so.

[@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90]

@@emmamartin4045 im not talking about politics, im talking about the “hierarchy” in this patriarchy, a patriarchy that btw WILL NEVER PUT A FEMALE IN THAT WHITE HOUSE REGARDLESS OF IF SHE ACTUALLY WINS. They will never ever put a female president in the White House. Mark my words. We can have thirty more yrs of amazing women run for presidency and there will not be a single female president until this patriarchy is dismantled.

[@emmamartin4045]

@@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90Which basically means that women are not coming together. There are more women than men in the US + there are men who have reasons to vote for a Democratic Party (because they’re LGBT, because they’re black or any other race that’s not white, because they don’t actually hate women), so if women were actually working together, Harris would have had an easy win. You’re basically proving that we’re not united. I’m sorry but we’re just not. Right now, there’s a trend on Tik Tok of MAGA women threatening liberal women because they’re supposedly coming after them 🤦‍♀️ It’s dumb AF, obviously, but I promise you, they’re not siding with us.

[@sabeenie21]

The famous book should be called the 48 Laws of Control/Fake Power.

[@twainalex996]

😂 nice 👍🏽 one it’s fake power ,but it’s actually 48 laws of power

[@brigitteyan9121]

I admire your critical thinking, leadership & advocacy so so much.

[@breh9243]

You are waking people up! I have faith everyone will see the truth.

[@Id.rather.be.a.dragon]

This couldn't be more accurate.

[@Serioslump]

I love your work, for real your voice is so needed and appreciated right now. I wanted to ask you, have you read Carol J Adams’ “The Sexual Politics of Meat”? I think you’d find it very interesting, and the way it unpacks the connections and commonalities that exist between how society frames and consume animals physically and women symbolically was mind blowing and totally made me rethink my relationship to animals as a kind of class of being with investment in human political structures. Would love to hear your take on it!!

[@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90]

Wow this is so interesting 🧐 I will have to read this now

[@anjaliverma939]

Can you Tell me more about this book? I want to give it a try.

[@Serioslump]

@@anjaliverma939 it basically unpacks and outlines all the connections that exist between how society views and consumes women in a kind of psycho spiritual way and how we consume animals in a very literal way. Really made me think more about the role animals play in human society, and how much we forcibly subject them to that they never agreed to. I can’t recommend it enough

[@f3042]

THANK YOU! I am purchasing that book ASAP!

[@Serioslump]

@@f3042 awesome! 😎👍

[@Emptytopfloor]

It’s disheartening that simply hoarding money while opting out of wife and motherhood won’t dismantle the hierarchy.

[@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90]

I believe it’s doing so much more damage than the males are letting on.

[@07Flash11MRC]

It's a great start nonetheless...

[@Emptytopfloor]

@@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90 I’m holding onto that. I desperately hope it’s working.

[@saffylllama5609]

It has a huge impact. Consider that women are the ones that decide which men get to have all the status, comfort and benefits of having a wife and children and which men will die eating cup of noodle 🍜 alone on the couch with swollen ankles. Women are the lynch pin to most everything that men desire and THEY claim that without a wife and children/ family that they basically have no reason to work hard or to aspire to anything. All they complain about on their channels is about how women are to blame for ALL their problems and why their lives Are so terrible. In short they center women. 😂 And by doing so they tell on themselves. 🙄🥴

[@alexavasquez1992]

​@@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90 I think of the screenshot that went around after the election of a man saying "he's nervous about the 4b movement" and then other men replied to him saying that he shouldn't be because he can just grape women. They have been feeling the structure supporting them coming out from under them for a while now. They hint at it when they try to weaponise male self deleting rates, but otherwise cover it up extremely well. Still, the grape threats and the existence, and growing one at that, of the incel movement shows there is a lot more damage being done than they're admitting. For starters, it is exposing male codependence and how much they rely on women being forced down in order for them to thrive

[@davvy69]

I absolutely agree with the beautiful woman category. Racisim (interpersonally not systematically) applies less to women who are deemed beautiful by a eurocentric standard. In that vein, I believe signaling your willingness to conform and uphold patriarchy by doing really bizarre stuff to your face like some of the maga ladies also bumps up your status.

[@Sahalielove]

Ooh I love this take.

[@Sahalielove]

It’s helped me so much understanding that 50/50 can never be fair for a woman because men get more social status standing next to a woman than the other way around. In a friendship with a man, he still gets status just standing next to you, but a male friend is typically not going to contribute to your life as much as you contribute to his status, so friendship with men is not worth it.

[@ddanielsmc]

​@@Sahalielovedoes that still hold true for gay men?

[@Lex2034-f7y]

This is such a powerful video. This has encouraged me to write down my feminist ideas and thoughts about the patriarchy onto paper. I have always known for a while now about this structure. I have always said black women are looking up at this foundation where they are at the bottom and white people(mostly men) are at the top. It was perfectly well stated. This sums up what I have learned about the society in the USA since 12 to now being a 30y/o black woman. Like dead ass. And this shit is stressful. I hope in 50 years there will be more progress. As someone who attended a PWI for my bachelor’s and masters as well as being someone from the “hood”/poverty, my insight to my community and trying to blend into these higher educated structures comes at a cost. There is a glass ceiling that is impenetrable without the factors you mentioned. Great read. Will definitely be teaching my nieces about these concepts. Wish it was a way we keep all come together. Like how are we going to get all these likeminded women across the nation into a way for us to communicate and stand against the system. I am ready for it to crumble and it needs to happen within my lifetime I hope. Idk what is going to be the catalyst but something is brewing and that starts with women being knowledgeable and actively choosing not to participate in this bs. 4B all day!

[@okaywow3486]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WORK YOU DO!!! You’re doing the Lord’s work!!! You’re empowering us and leveling the imaginary playing fields!! I genuinely cannottttt thank you enough! Love you!! ❤❤

[@jfc-r1739]

Thanks, love your channel, content and mindset, keep it up!

[@yv_edit]

thank you so much that’s so kind 🥹😭🙏💕

[@manifest2203]

Not having to cater to a ma6n and living live on our terms- sleeping in, eating what we want without f5ear of some dude saying that the slight weight puts him off, not having to do hi6s laundry, having smex with whoever we want (if at all we do) are the ultimate signs of power. Freedom to live as we choose and not getting into tr6ps where we are answerable to other for our life choice, and where others do not have control over our lives is true power as a w8ma6n. Wmn don’t enjoy con5troling othr people.

[@gal-vai7999]

Love your breakdowns. However there is so much to breakdown like how education and class can also up people on the pyramid. Marriage partner too. Even within POC, there are some darker skinned ones that have the issue of being outcasted in their community, having very ethnic features and accent barriers. Within these different groups, there are dichotomies and intersectionalities due to the patriarchy and racism such as colorism, caste system, featurism etc.

[@TerraAventurineStudios]

There’s also rich vs poor in this hierarchy.You did mention it with status. Loved your point about the Olympics

[@LexLeo_]

You’ve really outdone yourself on this one. Pure gas 😭🔥🔥🔥

[@debwefox]

Excellent food for thought (and for resistance) Thank you!

[@Guiltyangel605]

🌊🌊🌊love your work🌊🌊🌊

[@luminescent__]

You asked for feedback or if we would change anything mentioned in the pyramid so please hear me out: Speaking as a Woman, (who is over 30), it would be more fitting for the very bottom of your Female Hierarchical Pyramid, - since it is pertaining to actual Women/ Females & where we are placed in patriarchal societal structure *_Beacause_* we are Women/ Female, - The _"Trans Women"_ option should be replaced with "No longer Youthful"/ "Deemed Old" , since a man becoming & living as a Trans Woman has nothing at all to do with being persecuted for being an actual Woman/ biologically Female; but being a Woman who is no longer young (sexually desirable to men/ **Fertile**) 100% does. A Man who is medically & cosmetically trying to _Present_ HIMself as a Woman cannot be catagorized with or ever even *experience* the consequences of being marginalized FOR being Born as physically/ Biologically Female.

[@enchanted222]

I love this. This is a great insight. Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙏 😊

[@hawleyolsen170]

I would say the issues trans women face are women's issues. The hatred for them is rooted in and driven by misogyny, while their "maleness" does absolutely nothing to benefit them. They belong in the female hierarchy because they don't have any of the power or status a male automatically gets, and can't use women to climb higher. Also, please remember that some trans women "pass". The marginalization they receive outside their home is the same as for other women, because the people around them don't know and can't tell the difference. After all, it isn't your XX chromosomes or female genitalia that determine your power or status. Nobody sees those outside of private medical or intimate settings. The problem is that the people around you have you in their minds as a women, and a passing trans woman fully participates in that.

[@hawleyolsen170]

Okay, so I have to admit I read your comment before watching the video. Having now seen it - The point Lisa was asking for feedback on was whether to include the beauty category - which I think your comment is in support of. So much of the beauty standard is simply youth. "Deemed old" is built into her version of the pyramid since aging knocks women out of the "beauty" category and sometimes into the "disabled" category. - Lisa didn't put trans women in the women only pyramid. She gave the bottom category as "trans, disabled, and sex workers" and left us to figure out whether she meant trans men or trans women. I can think of reasons for including both, but again, she didn't specify. - The women only pyramid is about how women sort themselves in response to the main pyramid. We are not persecuting each other for being actual Women, we are jockeying for position with other people who are conceptualized as women. I see countless examples of cis women trying to sort themselves above trans women, so there's one reason to include trans women in the women's pyramid. - The overarching point is that the patriarchal, white supremacist power hierarchy relies on these invented, abstract categories and ideas. Lisa pointed out transphobia as being important to the patriarchy for this reason. It upholds women being kept separate as a class by pretending that "womanhood" is a concrete attribute that determines a person's place and value. The line that struck me was, "The concept of womanhood keeps the patriarchy in place. Deeply ingrained, in place." Watch from 22:40 for that part of the essay. Fascinating stuff. Where trans people fit into this pyramid, and why, is a really good microcosm of how the patriarchy uses gender to exert control. Definitely worth thinking and talking over. Thank you for opening up that part of the discussion.

[@navideology]

You are amazing ❤💯🎯 Another great video⭐🙌🏻✊🏻💯🎯

[@navideology]

Very very insightful. I'm showing it to all my friends and my mom. You're very wise.

[@jessicanorris3614]

Hmm public offender has pointed out that ALL mn got the vote before ww got the vote in the US. And we've had obama but no female president of any colour . WW are doing well economically but i think they may have been below BM on the scale fifty years ago (although I'm basing that on an infographic burb and bougie once showed, so i havent fact checked) , and ofc asians are now financially outperforming WM/WW in the US, so that aspect of things is nuanced. Public offender has also pointed out other ways in which all wmn, including WW, are below MoC in terms of social status.

[@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90]

RIGHT! it seems it’s Men in general above ALL women. I even heard a man describing the patriarchy once and he said in a man’s mind when you don’t have a dyck and balls your disqualified from their heirarchal system immediately. You’ve already lost.

[@emmamartin4045]

I think class plays a role here. A rich WW will have more power than a poor BM, but the second a BM has money… I remember Garbage Tate saying something like that « where money lies, race doesn’t matter anymore ». Which means that a BM with money will be seen as a powerful person first and foremost by all men around him. A rich WW will forever remain a woman in their eyes, which makes her automatically inferior in a patriarchal society.

[@4blueland]

Bell Hooks talks about this, too, BM before WW. I'm sure there are some exceptions...

[@MP-il8ys]

I think it’s really tricky to cleanly place WW and men of color in general into the same hierarchy, because our advantages and disadvantages play out in different scenarios. It does explain why so many white women and men of color voted for Trump- they all have a marginal amount of privilege provided by associating with a white man.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

I don't think that's true. A rich BM is still lower in the male dominance hierarchy than a rich WM or AM.

[@Sarita_Red_Feather]

Power is always control, power is initiation of force

[@seleciaa]

Here and ready~

[@femmefatale71]

I’m going to disagree that trans are more oppressed than black women. Trans women of all races are on record not only culturally appropriating but also defaming biological black women and comparing the struggles. This not only dehumanises black m women but also plays into the stripping away of black biological women’s unique struggles. Evidence of the way people from all groups STILL 14:49 use male termed slurs towards muscular black women like Serena Williams & Michelle Obama!!! Racism presides all if that and especially at a systemic level. All the stats and the situation with sports, femicide, maternal mortality, misogynoir, reproductive abuse, systemic poverty, generational trauma etc shows the opposite but agree with the others…

[@indrinita]

You should assume this is not steed friendly space. You also don’t understand intersectionality, that much is clear. All oppression is related, including the one you’re trying to perpetuate.

[@evergreenforestwitch]

​@@femmefatale71"trans women of all races are on the record" - where, what record. Show me. But you can't because there is no "record" of cultural appropriation which means you're lying to justify your anti trans beliefs. Either you think all HUMANS - regardless of gender, sexuality, race, ability etc - are worthy of basic respect or you don't. When you specify one group - in your case trans - to other you are upholding the hierarchical and oppressive structures that harm everyone. There is no special corner of hatred you can go to that isn't just as bad as racism or sexism, what have you. Your opinions about other people's genitalia and what they do with it are inside thoughts. Nobody cares and you need to shut up about it. It is WEIRD how much people care about what .000001% of the population does with their junk. And that IS what you're taking about. Why does it matter? You look like a perv, not trans people. Anyone that obsessed with genitals has issues and trans phobia is opinions about genitals. Let that sink in. Weird flex, that's all I'm saying. Also why tf did you post this gross rant on THIS comment. Nobody was saying what you're ranting against in the enire comments section. Does your transph9bia affect your reading comprehension as well as your morality?

[@evergreenforestwitch]

​@femmefatale71 why did you say this in response to this comment? Nobody is talking about this. Also if you other ANY group like you're doing with trns people, you are upholding and adding power to the hierarchical systems that harm everyone. There is no ok group to single out and other. The system is bad, not the most vulnerable people who are statistically most likely to be victms of it. It's morally repugnant to other ANY group of people. Stop doing it. It's weird to care that much what random strangers do with their junk. Why do you care about what is in someone you don't knows pants? I can think of zero socially acceptable reasons to THINK about that, let alone say this sort of stuff in public with your whole chest. Embarrassing.

[@seleciaa]

I don't understand how this conversation unfolded on my comment when all I wrote was "here and ready~" Just hope everyone remains respectful.

[@Furnominal]

I had to watch this twice! It’s so good.

[@TheSunnymuffins]

Watching this before my morning hike and I'm gonna watch again when i get home cuz whew... Examining the structures simplifies a lot of the fckery.

[@hawleyolsen170]

I love your whole channel, but this video essay hit especially hard. I appreciate your highly lucid, broad scope approach so much. Where do I look to find out more about women based, non-hierarchical, circular systems? I'm hungry to know what that looks like in practical and material terms, and where to find communities that work that way. I'm also very curious about real power: what it is, what it does, and why women specifically are the ones who have it. Is there a video or book that covers that subject in more detail?

[@ishikawa8284]

This! I want to learn too! Somebody, please teach me!

[@---Dana----]

I think that beauty shortcut could be a whole discussion by itself. Are men still determining our beauty standards? Is this why women wear 5" heels and spend so much money on their nails?

[@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022]

Amazingly done; but depressing. It’s good that BW has focused most of their existence on being useful to others instead of chasing money and power because the whole world is designed against her success there, so she’s spent most of her efforts where it has actually been effective since a lot of people expect good things from BW, that’s a good reputation, therefore success. The best place for BW to continue her efforts is in herself, people that are helpful to her and to women and children and animals; that work is satisfying, therefore personally beneficial.

[@SiddityPrincess]

This was so good! I also think there needs to be a new way we select leadership positions among women in new systems as well being a white woman cannot be the bar. I’m sure many bw and bipoc women can attest to their experiences with them.

[@amytaylor1909]

Please do a video on how do we stabilize these systems of oppression??❤

[@danidiaz2377]

Yesssss keep them coming 💛💛👏

[@s_e_a_r_c_h]

Can someone explain to me how patriarchy is a white supremacist concept? From my research it seems patriarchy exists in all Races and cultures at this current time

[@emmamartin4045]

I think she’s talking specifically about what’s happening in the West, but yes. I don’t know a single culture nowadays that’s not based on patriarchy.

[@Zbeastie]

Maybe rewatch the full video? You don't think ww upholding wm violence/supremacy/systems, applies to female poc upholding the same systems for male poc?

[@Thetruthwillsetyoufree90]

@@Zbeastie ww are not holding up this patriarchy the way they are being talked about like they are. They are literally out here working beside you, struggling beside you, trying to survive right beside you. It seems everyone has this image of WW like they are all “elite” like they are all sipping wine while getting everything for free when the reality around you is showing everyone quite literally the opposite. but the image everyone has of them is like they’ve all got it made. They don’t. That’s a very small percentage sitting at the top. And regardless of what anyone keeps saying out here about WW being right underneath Wm, a black male will get the presidency before a WW an Asian man will become president before a WW will and so on, opportunities and privileges will always be given to every race of Male before they’ll ever give it to WW and they aren’t going around all day long thinking “ I’m just gonna keep other women down so I can keep my spot” what spot? What spot? My neighbors in the projects were all WW having to work 9-5s while raising kids overwhelmingly alone bc Wm aint shyt either. Let’s be real. Let’s be very real right now. There’s a “club” at the top and WOMEN ain’t in it.

[@VeeKayGreenerGrass]

The Sumerians brought patriarchy, they were Black.

[@s_e_a_r_c_h]

@@Zbeastie How do ww benefit from patriarchy? The more money a man has the easier it is for him to get away with anything.

[@DangBlast]

Being pretty beats being white. I'm an attractive black woman. When I was younger, I dated several wealthy and 1 famous white man. The reason it is better is because it gives you access to the upper eschelon of white men that even most white women can't touch. Dating out breaks the racial hierarchy, which in their eyes means they now exist above it. It's an exciting way to break the rules, and that confers more status because rules are for peasants. I've heard some versions of this on MULTIPLE occasions from different white men. It's an F you to middle-class social norms.

[@rach-meister4527]

Yes!!!!! thank you for posting

[@Lysistrata2025]

You took us to school!

[@kk-vs7vp]

About the part of beauty, recently I'm thinking more and more how many women think about dressing nice being beautiful as empowering, yet are you really empowered if you are s* lave to beauty standards set ip by men

[@marys2406]

Beautiful women will age out of the system.

[@kk-vs7vp]

@marys2406 mhm I wish the same

[@sarahlpw]

So by "choosing", any man can become a part of the "most marginalized" community? How man like! I am whatever I want to be and you HAVE to pity me for it!

[@hawleyolsen170]

Every hierarchy works like this. No matter your "natural" place in the hierarchy, you will lose everything if you challenge the concepts upon which the hierarchy is based. Trans people are the ultimate heretics here because they make gender look like a weebly-wobbly social construct instead of a concrete, objective, defining personal characteristic you can use to justify and reinforce your hierarchy.

[@destroyraiden]

Your vids are amazing love them they need to be taught!

[@jessejules2092]

In a tic toc video Ivy_edit discusses white women with disabilities vs black women with disability and makes a comparison about who has it worse by her statement 'if you're a single mother disabled white woman imagine being black and disabled?' As a white severely disabled woman, I'd have to disagree that life is necessarily worse for disabled black women as the variables differ circumstantially. If both are pushed to the point of wanting to end their life, then there really is no competition about who has it worse. Maybe numerically there are more disabled black women, but what are the variables? Ie, a disabled single black woman with 1 child but has community vs a white disabled single woman with no family support with three children. I'd like to know the statistics WITH variables included. And, before anyone might want to think that I lack understanding about the nature of heirarchy with a bias towards white women, my child is black. The nuances in society are not as 'black and white' and categorical as she is teaching.

[@kikijewell2967]

17:50 "no overlap WW and BW." False. This is a WP "one drop" perspective. There's definitely the concept of lightness and darkness that pervades darker skinned people. This is _critically important_ for WP to understand - because we see _all_ people with darker skin as below us (and that's a fkng _problem!),_ but from a PoC perspective, there's levels of "passing". Bottom line: _hierarchy itself is evil._ And honestly I'm less interested in this video that spells it out (and reinforces it?) than I am in unlearning hierarchical thinking. Every person has the same worth. Any stratification of "worth" of a person comes directly from productivity and capitalism. Equality is the enemy of hierarchy.

[@itsspringtime]

Brain storming about the beautiful women category because I think there is more fluidity in the female hierarchy than can be represented by the triangle. I'm not sure how to describe this but I think a beautiful, younger, white woman would occupy a higher space than an elderly white woman somehow? And of course, a beautiful, young white woman who adheres to the beauty standard would occupy a higher status than a young white woman who doesn't (like the "blue haired feminist" trope). And then you can also add fluidity to the remaining categories. I think age, adherence to the beauty standard, relationship status, motherhood status all kind of mingle in here. For example, ballerina farm lady (beautiful, young, white, married mother) would clearly have more status than a poor, black, single mother or probably any single mother. But it really gets murky when you add wealth to the picture. I think the women's triangle is more murky but I think it's a good start to the concept. I hope my thoughts have helped. 😅

[@JKH-m4y]

Yv, I love you but the video is flipped and there's a bit of work you can do on the on the contrasting colors on the thumbnails. I've noticed it with burb and bougie too, I love the messages but maybe a little work on the editing and thumbnails can help it reach a lot more women. Men's propaganda vids and mostly edits have a lot of harder music and visuals to push in the point that they override logic, I'm not saying it's a good thing but we gotta make community. Maybe you could hire someone or have volunteers pitch in?

[@19katsandcounting]

I feel depressed.

[@gecarter53]

Well presented and provocative. What prompted this topic?

[@WynnWynn-gl3fk]

Join 4b.

[@LoonahNoom]

They did it to Marth Stewart.

[@CoderCoder-px4bd]

Yeah I was shocked when Martha went to prison!!

[@TheGreatTomDix]

If I was in poverty and wanted a way out I'd consider buying Bitcoin. Have more of the money we will use in the future and you have some power!

[@femmefatale71]

I’m going to disagree that trans are more oppressed than black women. Trans women of all races are on record not only culturally appropriating but also defaming biological black women and comparing the struggles. This not only dehumanises black m women but also plays into the stripping away of black biological women’s unique struggles. Evidence of the way people from all groups STILL use male termed slurs towards muscular black women like Serena Williams & Michelle Obama!!! Racism presides all if that and especially at a systemic level. All the stats and the situation with sports, femicide, maternal mortality, misogynoir, reproductive abuse, systemic poverty, generational trauma from the past etc shows the opposite but agree with the others…

[@princessmorebucks]

At this point in time, I believe the patriarchy "fears" the transcommunity more than the black community. Fear = oppression.

[@morganhumphrey5587]

Black women are more oppressed then any group

[@Biiku_]

I think we have to recognize that trans women are raised first as men regardless of who they are internally. That's not an excuse, rather an explanation. We culturally raise boys differently than girls so when trans and non-binary people first come out there's a loooot of work that happens un-learning a lot of man bullshit but also learning a lot of BS women already know and sorting through the un-true white feminism that's artificially flooding the information market about what it means to be a woman. Not saying it's right, just saying the first few years are messy for the same reason our upbringing in our own families and puberty is messy. Also note that there aren't that many of us. So those of us that do come out publicly do so under a microscope AND in full view. So many of us are expected to do it right with role models that are just as few and scrutinized. So your critiques and feelings are valid, but also missing some context. I hope that helps. This entire response is a "yes and".

[@Biiku_]

Double posting to add, yes I agree. Black women are oppressed more as a group and a class. I just wanted to add more to your post as to why trans people are another intersectional community that are also behind on getting that but also catching a lot of heat for our size in population because of what we represent to the concept of "womanhood".

[@tiktokfamous3446]

Why can’t we just focus on biological women? I’m not phobic of any kind but this is about real women

[@Trini_Hybrid1573]

Here early 🎉🎉🎉

[@hugh_jasso]

The 48 Laws of Power is applicable to all.

[@amyg268]

So men are just trying to get back to the days when their moms just loved them and there were no consequences. All this patriarchy is them living their trauma of growing up without being emotionally prepared for life and they’re living that trauma all over everybody. Can we at least start to build these circling communities without hierarchy with each other? Like can we participate in the hierarchy as a unit and within the unit it’s all circles?

[@triloization]

💜💜💜

[@Melinamiu007]

❤

[@Alexcatchh]

I would if any poc can be above WW with privilege and wealth?

[@dkdoodle]

BM could vote 50 years before WW and their bodies aren't controlled so. 🙅‍♀️ I don't know if that counts.

[@galwayaga]

Where's Opra in this structure?

[@GumTreeLeaf]

Concepts are very real and in fact, they are more real than physicality. That is the truth of mind over matter. Everything you are saying is completely conceptual, you ironically didn't really even give any concrete examples of what "women's power" actually is and what it even does. You made so many nuanced arguments in this video, that I can't really engage everything point by point but the broadest rebuttal I can think of is to point to the animal kingdom. Animals are brutally violent and very often organise themselves into hierarchies, yet they have seemingly little to no ability to think conceptually. To me this clearly shows that hierarchical thinking isn't based on misplaced fidelity to empty concepts as you say. I have a lot more I can say but I'll stop there, I'd love to see how you respond. Cheers

[@marys2406]

Do you always speak is babble?

[@Talbeha]

Hey what is witten under women power? Cant read the mirrored page...

[@Maria-b9m2q]

Hey, does anyone knows a KZbinr that talks about this topics trough a transgender perspective?

[@Maria-b9m2q]

I don’t know if that made any sense 😭 English is not my first language

[@zacharybosley1935]

Why do men buy into the pyramid?

[@rizelmicro-of-macro-hs1dl]

22:05 lol when she said “instead of this dumbass pyramid “ I smiled so hard haha cause it kinda sounded like she was scolding the whole male species collectively for creating this system while the divine feminine slept .

[@AmeliaHouck-o9j]

READ MY COMMENTS THAT EXPLAIN THIS BETTER!

[@krystajung1441]

So happy this is here!!! Incredible work and niáwen for putting this on youtube as well♥️🙏🎯🫂

[@Friendofdarknesss]

True power is care without ego. It is the most valuable thing in the world. That comes from a woman. It is a resource that is in extremely short supply. Personally, my care is currently being fortified behind iron, brick, and steal brocades. All of which were torn down early in life to be forced to be agreeable.

[@luminescent__]

You asked for feedback or if we would change anything mentioned in the pyramid so please hear me out: Speaking as a Woman, (who is over 30), it would be more fitting for the very bottom of your Female Hierarchical Pyramid, - since it is pertaining to actual Women/ Females & where we are placed in patriarchal societal structure *_Beacause_* we are Women/ Female, - The _"Trans Women"_ option should be replaced with "No longer Youthful"/ "Deemed Old" , since a man becoming & living as a Trans Woman has nothing at all to do with being persecuted for being an actual Woman/ biologically Female; but being a Woman who is no longer young (sexually desirable to men/ **Fertile**) 100% does. A Man who is medically & cosmetically trying to _Present_ HIMself as a Woman cannot be catagorized with or ever even *experience* the consequences of being marginalized FOR being Born as physically/ Biologically Female.

[@jibarabicha4853]

I agree, they do suffer marginalization but don’t experience the social programming that women have been fed from birth. They themselves live out a ‘concept’ of what it’s like in the life of a woman.