Disempowering

It's also fundamentally backwards looking and maybe even a touch disempowering, which is ironic given the brilliantly capable, future-oriented builders of worlds who dot the speculative fiction landscape (authors and characters both). ❋ Unknown (2009)

This narrative still clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect "with catastrophic implications" to whiteness. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Next week, we will discuss the second narrative: 'This shouldn't happen to a white' which as we said earlier, also clings to whiteness and sees the changes taking place in the country as having a "disempowering" effect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In his keynote speech, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called the limitations "disempowering" and warned that his office did not have the resources to track and prosecute spammers on its own. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"It's kind of disempowering for me for you not to see how very important it is for me," she says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the disempowering messages of those entrusted with my education came to a crashing end when I stumbled on the idea of crossing the world relying on the kindness of strangers. ❋ Leon Logothetis (2011)

Those who say it can't be done in an age of trivializing media, or the paradoxically fragmenting and disempowering role of the Internet, or the undertow of private amusement, or the hegemony of big money, are too cynical. ❋ Robert Kuttner (2011)

Believe it or not, it is possible to reduce income poverty MDG1, and to meet a range of other MDGs regarding provision of basic health and education while simultaneously committing grave human rights abuses, disempowering the poorest, and encouraging the consolidation of power and wealth in the hands of the rich. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is profoundly frustrating, disempowering and, quite frankly, depressing to see so many one-time activists, caring friends and neighbors, concerned journalists, political and public policy leaders disappear like a puff of smoke once combination therapy brought a relative cure to those with the privilege of healthcare access. ❋ Sean Strub (2011)

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. ❋ Unknown (2012)