Thursday, December 16, 2010

We have choices to make

After doing the readings on oppression the biggest factor that I am seeing is institutions. Insitutions that we have already set up is probably the biggest reasons for oppression. In her articl Oppression by Choice Anne E. Cudd makes the claim that oppression is the porduct of individual choices. She focuses on women, saying that because women make choices to stay and home and be house wives rather than challenging their husbands and going out to work their choices are oppresing themselves. In her artle Cudd also eximens what cooersion means. She states that most examples should be looked at from the viewpoint of moral coersion which means that there is more to the picture than A is pushed to P  because the other options that A has arnt acceptable. It means that we cannot look at if A is coeerced by P unless we look at the background factors. The main idea of morally coercion  is if "whether the agent is denied some choice that she ought to morally have." In another article by Lorde, Teish and Gardner there is a story about a black couple that are going through married issues. The black wife is realizing that her husband has let go of his identity to become what he sees as better, which is the white man. He has left his oppressive state to go be someone better. I like the story because the wife realizes what is going on and starts to analyze their situation and in a way embrace it. It shows that the only way for them to accept themselves was to realize the truth about their situations which was that they are still oppressed. One of the hardest things for oppressed groups to do is to realize what is going on to them, for example woman that stay home rather than go out and work.

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