Marilyn Frye Oppression
I was always oblivious to the meaning of oppression, I didn’t want to believe it was real. I just wanted to move on with my life and have oppression not exist, but it does and it’s worse than I could have imagined. In Marilyn Frye’s article “Oppression,” she suggests oppression as a, “double bin – situations in which options are reduced to a very few and all of them expose one to penalty, censure or deprivation” (42). I define oppression as a double bind that lasts a lifetime, that no matter how hard you try, you are stuck to a standard. I agree with Frye even though this was no always the case, I was staring at a single bar in the birdcage.
I never saw that I was seen as a bitch who never smiled or a slut because I love to wear more risky
I never saw that I was seen as a bitch who never smiled or a slut because I love to wear more risky