Since we established right up front that power should be thought of a multi-dimensional (and I agree with that structure), it isn’t really meaningful to ask whether one kind (or linear combination of kinds) of power is more or less important than another.
”In countries where women are the most oppressed, feminism doesn’t succeed as a movement, and in countries where women hold a lot of power, it ends up being very popular.”—I find it misleading to compare “most oppressed” with “hold a lot of power”. At the very least we need to modify the latter to “hold a lot more power”, but far better would simply be to place these both along a power spectrum—more power vs. less power. The implication of “hold a lot of power” is that in these societies women hold more power than men, and that certainly wasn’t true in societies such as America in the 1960s when feminism gained significant popularity.
In general, I suspect that ideas such as feminism only become widely popular when they stop seeming outlandishly far-fetched, regardless of how appealing their theoretical objectives may be.
Since we established right up front that power should be thought of a multi-dimensional (and I agree with that structure), it isn’t really meaningful to ask whether one kind (or linear combination of kinds) of power is more or less important than another.
”In countries where women are the most oppressed, feminism doesn’t succeed as a movement, and in countries where women hold a lot of power, it ends up being very popular.”—I find it misleading to compare “most oppressed” with “hold a lot of power”. At the very least we need to modify the latter to “hold a lot more power”, but far better would simply be to place these both along a power spectrum—more power vs. less power. The implication of “hold a lot of power” is that in these societies women hold more power than men, and that certainly wasn’t true in societies such as America in the 1960s when feminism gained significant popularity.
In general, I suspect that ideas such as feminism only become widely popular when they stop seeming outlandishly far-fetched, regardless of how appealing their theoretical objectives may be.