(seen at Jen Lemen)

i believe that if we deny our power or our desire for those positions of influence, those desires begin to drive us through unconscious ways outside of our immediate personal control. (we have a textbook case of this with our issue of white privilege, but that's another chapter in the same story.) by denying these forces working in us, we give up the opportunity to reflect on those desires, to consider how they impact our world positively or negatively and to be broken by the ways we abuse each other with that power. instead, we set ourselves up to say silly things that everyone around us knows aren't completely true but no one has the ability to address because real honesty has gone underground. things like..."anyone can do whatever they want around here; we have no barriers." or this one, "women can do whatever they want; they just choose to take quiet less vocal roles in our particular community.