Victim Hood

You have to take off the mantle of victim hood before you put on the mantle of power.  President Obama did it, to his credit.  Jesse Jackson resented this renunciation of racial victim hood, but perhaps he has since come to a higher level of understanding.

Women come forth to claim sexual abuse by various gurus.  But when you ask them, "did he physically force you?", they say no.  So you had consensual sex with a guru and it's his fault?  These women are so fully identified with the role of victim that they do not realize that they already have power and responsibility just by virtue of being an adult.  Powerful women are magnificent, and it should be the normal state.

Everybody has long, well-reasoned and tortured justifications for holding on to their victim hood, but you have to take off the mantle of victim hood before you put on the mantle of power.