Word: oppressor
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Perhaps I did not understand all of what Monica Wittig, lesbian advocate, was saying the other night at the Radcliffe Forum. Clearly enough, Wittig sees men as an oppressor class, women as oppresses. Clearly, too, Wittig believes women should "fight" to break free of oppression, even making use of "military bases...
...what about individual men? In lashing out at the male oppressor class, will the lesbian movement (whatever it may be construed to be) strike at persons regardless of their individual philosophies or potential...
...Wittig's object is to overcome oppression through heightened consciousness and personal sensitivity regardless of sex, that's one thing. But in setting up a class struggle scenario, any advocate risks prescribing an outcome where either once class of oppressor continues its oppression, or a new class of oppressor takes the reins. Is it possible that under some new system the male role in society could be limited strictly to sperm production...
...guerrillas should now give up: The armed struggle has not gone on for the sake of hurting one another. It was for the sake of forcing our oppressor to accept majority rule. The most important thing is that we are getting that power we have been fighting for?to improve our constitution, improve our people, uplift them. We know that it is because of our children's sacrifice that we are in this position today, but these are the children of Zimbabwe, not Nkomo or Mugabe, and we want to welcome them back, not condemn them to go on fighting...
...cognize the nature of physical and emotional reality. As such, Afro-American literature is simply the reflector of the life of Afro-American peoples, which shows us the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they were treated by the oppressor class, the manner in which they transformed themselves in historical time and the various forms which have been used to capture the essential features of their ontological being...