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Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex, 1981

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On average, males are 10 to 15 percent larger in physical stature than women. There are many women who are larger than men, of course, just as there are many smaller men in relation to large men. How big a power difference could really be legitimated by the fact that some men are larger than some women? Hasn’t a mystique been generated here? And what would happen to that mystique if women—more women, most women—actually had the knowledge, the training, and the encouragement to make the most of themselves physically? How would things change if women knew how to use their bodies for power, and leverage, and social position, just as men do? If they used their bodies not for surrogate power, through passively pleasing men, but directly, getting what they want in their lives through a sense of their own physical agency and competence?

The Frailty Myth by Colette Dowling

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