Question for you out there

Does the positionality of power enable malaise? More specifically, is it only the priveleged who have the capacity for malaise?

Contextually, this came up in conversation with She Who is Resistant, who maintains that the above is absolutely, undeniably true. Me, I'm not so sure.

Conundrum

How can one not like Chomsky for being "too essentialist", and yet still manage to reduce the world along power-lines based on the presence or absence of penis?

me, probably being essentialist in my insistence on consistency