"one would hope that womans' lib might have improved this, joanna. the assumption being that women with equal opportunity would be less repressed, and less likely to take out their anger and frustration on other men and women. i've so often heard from woman that other women are a problem. and from blacks that they get less consideration from black authority figures than they do white authority figures. but i guess this depends on individuals."
There were different flavors of women's lib -- one flavor wanted a form of liberation that included women, another wanted a form of entitlement that included women: entitlement to exploit, rape, torture, whatever. Same goes for "black" liberation. You either wanted to be liberated away from the class system or into a privileged position within it.
There is nothing genetic or racial about the desire for freedom over the desire for power. This is why, among many other reasons, identity politics is a dead end.
Joanna