Women are praised only when they avoid power

Evidence

15 The voices of the ethics of care are not unproblematically those of women, not only for these reasons but also because they generate many conflicts for women’s lives. The traditional voice which locates women as carers for close others still speaks to and through women with a force and power most women cannot ignore, but women cannot now safely allow themselves to be defined by this voice (Grimshaw 1986:215 ff.). — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 787 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Women who wielded feudal power were admired only by imitating male cruelty — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 207; Female power only earns honor once it is explicitly abdicated. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 368; Woman is always defined as Other, never positively for herself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 323 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Women cannot safely let themselves be defined by the caring voice #expands (0.93) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 787