I imagine you would have no problem with talking about power politics, or even power race relations, but you do have a problem talking about power gender relations. Of course power is not the only parameter by which we can analyse gender relations, there are many more, which you may find more congenial, but it seems to me that the very idea of the patriarchy is about the parameter of power.
Power does make many of us uncomfortable, not realising we have been grappling with power for many centuries, and through political struggle and reflection we we settled on liberal democracy, based on the limitation of power. And finding the limitation of power in one sphere, we have extended it to other spheres, such as slavery, the emancipation of women called feminism, and the prosecution of child sexual abuse in prosperous countries.