We will need to talk with other people to get a look at the different facets of oppressive social structures. Which makes the need to have conversations that really communicate all the more pressing. Thinking about oppression Oppression is important. It is important for us to have as subtle an understanding of oppression of all kinds as we can manage to build, in order that we may effectively counteract and ultimately abolish it. For me, this is why it is important not to stop at the kind of model of human liberation that Bryan suggested in his article.
Oppression takes many forms.
Patriarchy' describes only one of the forms of oppression, and in my view men as a group are indeed privileged under patriarchy. None of this is the case with respect to a person's being a man. Being male is something he has going for him, even if race or class or age or disability is going against him. Women are oppressed, as women. They deprive us of interesting conversations and real relationships.