I think what I got out of "Power" was that, in any conflict, both sets of combatants are just as bad as each other. That, and misogynists are fighting paper tigers, not women. (I do think the episode should come with the disclaimer "No feminists were harmed during the filming of this episode," because the Seska don't really qualify.)

I think it is possible to argue that it's not misogynist, but only on a technicality. The authorial intent was almost certainly meant to be - Ben Steed is a man with male dominance issues, all episodes considered - but, whatever the true intent, he poses the scenario so ineptly that, whatever it's meant to be, it's not. It's just a bit of a muddle, really, and the only people who come out of it relatively well, or, you know, alive, are the ones who just don't give a toss about gender, or much of anything. And it's such a muddle that there's one significant line indicating that's the main point, and half an episode asserting male superiority, and half an episode alleging undue female victimization at the hands of the patriarchy, and god knows, really. It definitely reeks of it, though, doesn't it. Sadly, I'm far too fluent in "Power", because I did once write a story - in my defense, for a ficathon assignment - retconning it. But I don't admit to it.

Happiness Patrol is bloody brilliant, and now I want to watch it.