ABSTRACT
I propose that women do less harm only because we have less
power.1 Once we gain power, it becomes clear that we are as inept in
eccentricities or foibles. Weaknesses and flaws in character, when
expressed between friends and family, may be annoying (avoiding
to other people) but they are rarely politically destructive. Once an
individual gains power, however, once a group gains power, the
ginalized to abuse power emerges when we gain power either by
becoming insiders in a formerly criticized institution, or as our move-
ments for social change gain in numbers and political influence. I con-
which there is a clear division between good and evil, truth and error,
order and chaos, purity and corruption, commitment to the greater
good and mere self-aggrandizement, then we are likely to be shattered
and resistant to criticism when others see it in us.
