It is not an act of power to strip power from others. True power does not feel threatened by the empowerment of others.
Women have been stripped of their power by men for ages. Women may naturally feel a reactionary urge to immasculate men, however such an urge merely mirrors the same powerless behavior that men have been acting towards women that got women in this position in the first place.
Teal Scott has one of the most insightful commentaries I’ve heard on this topic in ages: