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> They could sometimes admit that women were oppressed (but only by “the system”) As the saying goes, when you're privileged equality feels like oppression.
by pixl97 1mo ago
> They could sometimes admit that women were oppressed (but only by “the system”)
As the saying goes, when you're privileged equality feels like oppression.
- antonvs 1mo agoYup. Somewhat amazingly, John Stuart Mill addressed this as long ago as 1869 - a full hundred years before The Personal Is Political, in his essay The Subjection of Women: > “But was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it? ... Those who enjoy the benefit of an institution or a social arrangement, have a strong interest in believing that it is just; and they are rarely slow in finding arguments to convince themselves of what they wish to believe."