I don't recall if my edit quoting the snippet came after your first response or not

I don't recall it, so I'll assume not as it does change what I took from it a bit. For I simply find it inconceivable a notion that you cannot power beg from those above you. You won't be raised to their level, that's foolhardy to think, but you can gain considerable power in the in between by appealing to many facets.

The married woman has more overt power over her husband than before 1960 or 1890, but the American family or individual has far less power than before 1930 until you reach $600k/yr household income

Which means little as during the same timeframe being a family is not longer a requirement for a woman to gain basic standards of living. One woman can gain a pretty solid living in general just on government income alone, if you are willing to lack in shame to maximize it.

By proclaiming color-blindness, one is falling into the trap of using rhetoric that is conceptually polluted by the zealots

I agree, this same concept is why I am zealous about things like "never" being used in these philosophical contexts. Because it precludes possibilities, which given time will become a blindspot that can horribly hurt your awareness.