How can you be too prosperous and oppressed at the same time?
An asker has asked a question that ponders if women are too successful to think they are oppressed and I was wondering how that could be since the common view is that white men are prosperous yet we cannot be oppressed according to most feminists. But women can be both prosperous and oppresed how is this possible?
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I think what you’re trying to say is that you can be successful but have problems at the same time, and be too occupied with, say, financial success to focus on emotional success. People that are too obsessed with their successes to take care of their issues, be it white man or feminisit female, have a problem that deserves no sympathy.
We are paid less doing the same job, we are frowned upon for being president of the USA, some think we should be cooking and cleaning for everyone (children not included), all the while bringing home a paycheck. That’s how.
Prosperity is simply having a lot of money. Oppression can take a LOT of forms, including social, sexual, political and psychological. Women are finally able to become financially secure on their own power without having to marry a wealthy man, but they’re STILL and often oppressed in the workplace, in the home and in politics.
Is this really such a mystery to you? Could you really be that out of touch?
Consider the bird in the gilded cage.
Prosperity and oppression are not mutually exclusive.
I think that white men today do suffer from a kind of oppression. They are almost expected to hate themselves for who they are, as if it were some fault of their own that they happen to be male and white. The media is constantly lambasting them, and they are on the opposite end of affirmative action. Poor white men are probably the unluckiest people in the US. They are poor, they have the same problems as minorities, and yet they are told that they are the “victimizers.” Oh, and it is okay to call them “white trash.” So……anyway……my 0.02
Just feminist garbage. It is good that most people think they are stretching for special treatment. Thats just another.
The more people who see questions like that, the more people will make up their own minds about the untrue, lame arguments that femen(shemales) and feminists spew.
I say let them ask and let them be seen for what they are.
I really don’t know. Here I’ve gone and told the world that I’m obedient http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjNDf4m0GEtHmiBM1IgliGrty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071016184217AAla2XZ&show=7#profile-info-EEZre7Tdaa
and you know something I don’t feel a bit oppressed, internal and or external. Go figure. Bottom line is, is that it is impossible to oppressed and prosperous at the same time; one has to outweigh the other. These two term cannot walk in tandem, as well as, happiness and oppression; trust me I am quite happy, even though I fight on here alot. Now we’re getting away from the subject. Back to basics. It is iimpossible. Could be some warped out mind game they’re playing to show how victimized they’re being. Load of hogwash you ask me.
As ‘farian3′ astutely observed, ” Oppression can take a LOT of forms”. Having material weath does not mean that there is no political, societal, cultural, etc - oppression. A woman have a high paying job and still be oppressed in OTHER areas of her life. There was an attempt made on Benazir Bhutto’s life today. She has material wealth, yes…but the sexist culture in which she lives oppresses her in very many ways. The attempt on her life was driven by an ideology that insists that women should be subservient to men - and therefore women should not hold political office.
Read:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
Then read
The Changing Role of Womanhood:From True Woman to New Woman in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Deborah Thomas
American Literature
Research and Analysis Web Site
http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/gilman.htm
I hope you ‘get it’. I know you people don’t read due to a low tolerance for stress, and a short attention span but in order to learn anything you simply MUST break down and read a book and develop some INSIGHT through the use of CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS.
Every human being MUST do it (read and learn something) periodically. To expose oneself to literature and art. Literature IS art. It describes the human condition. If one doesn’t read the human mind progressively rots away…cells die off and then it’s too late. You’re left drooling in a wheelchair.