Quoting joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com>:
> At 11:04 PM 12/03/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Love is a social relation and certainly also a power relation.
> >Of course love involves power. Always. In many forms. And between parents
> and
> >children, the whole idea of "responsibility" is certainly also about
> power.
>
> I don't see this. We may be mired in a conflation of "power to" vs "power
> over," but it has always seemed to me that love relinquishes both power and
>
> the desire for power. But I suppose this has to do with whether you "love"
> someone only to the extent that they are a source of gratification for you
> or wether you love someone and therefore wish them and help them to be
> free.
>