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Oppression

from Modern Feminist Manifesto by Nyentek

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The root of oppression is press
Something pressed is caught between or among forces and barriers so related that they together restrain, restrict, or prevent the thing’s motion or mobility
People who are oppressed are required to smile and be cheerful or else they are perceived as mean, bitter, angry, or dangerous

Women in the US are often caught in a bind where neither sexual activity nor inactivity is all right
If she is heterosexually active a woman is punished as being loose, unprincipled, or a whore
On the other hand, a woman who refrains from heterosexual activity is harassed to relax and is threatened with labels such as frigid, uptight, man-hater, and bitch

If a woman who has been heterosexually active is raped she is subject to the presumption that she liked it, since she has been known to like sex
If a woman who has not been heterosexually active is raped she is subject to the presumption that she liked it because she was supposedly repressed and frustrated

If one dresses one way one is subject to the assumption of advertising one’s sexual availability
If one dresses another way one appears to not care about one’s self or to be “unfeminine”
When you look macroscopically you can see a network of forces and barriers that are systematically related and conspire to immobilize, reduce, and mold women and the lives they live

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from Modern Feminist Manifesto, released August 23, 2014

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