Gender and race can also be categories for differential status. Even in an essay, the writer is in discourse with the reader. For Bakhtin, the Russian novelist, we speak with a and we listen with a multiplicity of voices. A speak as professor, man, husband, father, rebel, and environmentalist. You listen as student, male or female, rebel, conformist, etc.
Organizations are a struggle of pre-mod, mod, and postmod discourse.
Postmods do not but in to other people's categories of who we are. All labels exploit. Inequity, unfairness, injustice, mixed with some naive or pre-meditated sleeze is part of exploitation. Exploitation can be sexual, racial, colonial, paternalistic, and bureaucratic. In every social structure, some group of people manage to exploit other groups of people.