I just saw someone say that people didn’t know about power dynamics 20 years ago and…
just checking here…
Are you high? That was the goddamn twenty-first century.
So this is your reminder:
Some people think they can GET AWAY with things.
This does not mean they are unaware that it is wrong.
It just means they think the rules don’t apply to them.
I guarantee you that anyone who's ever been on the oppressive end, knew about power dynamics. They may not have used that exact term but they knew what it was.
This is like what someone else wrote with extreme confidence for publication today, about how for most of human history, we were resigned to being ruled by kings & fine with that.
Uh.
Power dynamics, unknown to children of parents until…*checks notes **…somehow it came to my attention. I am smart.
Look, people just mysteriously picked people who were less powerful than they were to ask to do things they would never have asked of their equals, just somehow, really weird how that just kinda happened./s