Unless the system is actually open to inverting the power relationship, then it's just pattern matching and isn't anything more powerful than a slightly fancier

Unless the system is actually open to inverting the power relationship, then it's just pattern matching and isn't anything more powerful than a slightly fancier way of saying "X > Y". Everything else is window dressing and post-hoc vindication. Or to put this another way, there are people in my orbit who feel perfectly comfortable spouting "Men are the worst!" and "all men are stupid!", but would be extremely upset with you if you swapped the gender in those statements.