“Power,’ as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, ‘enters the picture in two ways’: the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, ‘deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such’.”— Shuli Barzilai
“As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the ‘scope of their threatenability’: ‘Why do men feel threatened by woman?’ I asked a male friend of mine….'[M]en are bigger, most of the time…and they have on the average a lot more money and power.’ ‘They’re afraid women will laugh at them,’ he said. ‘Undercut their world view.’ Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, ‘Why do women feel threatened by men?’ ‘They’re afraid of being killed,’ they said’.”— Shuli Barzilai