Feminists can only borrow these words and use them metaphorically. But such feminists are radical, hostile, and given to exaggeration. They demean real oppression by putting it on the same level as men's oppression of women. There are serious ramifications to this silencing. Without an understanding of history, an oppressed group cannot fight for meaningful change.
History is as necessary a tool to the oppressed as language itself.
If language is unavailable, a people can be herded by the dominant class like sheep. The 1990s are full of examples. Women for the most part lost battles against the backlash, when they fought at all, precisely because there was virtually no critical history of the oppression of women available to fight back with. The backlash came from both the right and the left, every instance bizarrely justified as ethical and righteous. Women's exercise of their freedom, on the other hand, was characterized as debauchery, prudery, or at the very least, unnecessary.