disempower

“I choose not to allow circumstances or individuals disempower my spirit,” she added as an emotional Evans added: “If you can say that, if you can really believe that, then there are so many others of us who can feel confident in that as well.”

Kirk spread a philosophy that liberals sought to disempower men, and some of his male supporters see his killing as an attack against them.

Anyone trying to keep knowledge from you, whether by banning books, gutting classrooms, denying identities or burying facts, is only trying to disempower you.

At its worst extreme, the “disempower women” solution takes us into Handmaid’s Tale territory, with women stripped of autonomy and forced into breeder roles.

You can push toward private schools, and you can disempower public schools.