Word: oppressors
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Secondly, some of these groups tend to be just a little too political. Response, for instance, features grabbers with heavy socio-political overtones such as "Do I call it racism or sexual harassment?" Is this counseling or merely advice on which charge to bring the male-chauvinist-oppressor next door before the Ad Board...
...oppressor isn't the white man," he added. "My oppressor is my own brother...
Gammons succeeds in becoming the drama's arch-oppressor as the pathologically smug Bertram; in a driving performance, he assaults Leopold verbally and ultimately physically, appending a quasi-sexual violence to the string of cliches he spits out. Gammons flaunts his matter-of-fact power over Leopold, crescendoing to an explosive frenzy with his own discourse; at the time Walling enters, Bertram is literally straddling Leopold, who Rouse has virtually transformed into the "passive object" of sexual, as well as intellectual interest. What Gammons' words and behavior add to the hollowed grammar of Leopard's existence, Fish and Stone...
There are those who argue that such fear is good for men to feel, as it "reverses the roles," so to speak, and puts them in the role of victim as opposed to oppressor. Yet there's a fine line between asserting collective strength and identity as women and putting men so on the defensive that they stay away from a cause that they, too, can do much to help. There is no underestimating the crucial importance of the march, but perhaps more of an effort to include men during the preceding week would allay the popular misconception that Take...
...world is more complicated than the Manichean division of oppressor and oppressed upon which so much liberal polemic is based, and life consists in more than the abundance or equality of material and political possessions which seems to be the summum bonum of most modern liberal thought...