Frye mainly concentrates on the oppression against women. Marilyn Frye compares women as a bird in a cage. Frye states that the oppression of women is meant to mold women and restrict their motions. This restriction or confinement is an experience of being caged in. Frye mentions how taking a further look at the cage of a bird one can see “It is perfectly obvious that the bird is surrounded by a network of systematically related barriers”.  She states how for women there will be constant barriers that we have to face because the system is in the benefit of the men. I found it interesting how Frye can set an example of a man holding the door for a woman as oppression. Once I re read it though I understood that that scenario is only a representation of how men would be the ones to remove that barrier for the women, a useless act like that suddenly makes them seem mightier.  This gives off the idea that a woman is not capable of doing simple tasks like opening a door, making women seem like they must depend on a man, when that itself shouldn’t be the case. The oppression of women however is not the only form of oppression Frye mentions

The definition of oppression is an unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power. Just like how Marilyn Frye mentions in the beginning of her writing, the word oppression is a strong word. In fact, the word oppression has been floating around in recent times. This is mainly because people of color are constantly being oppressed by authorities. And although this is a serious topic, I can’t help but draw a parallel to what Frye mentions next to a real-world situation. The situation is that the word is very misused, I have come upon a few Tik-Toks of where, mainly, white individuals would take this word out of context and apply it to themselves. Although Frye mentions various forms of oppression including race, Frye doesn’t seem to mention forms that white individuals are oppressed. Frye does give an example of how if a white person were to be deprived of the knowledge of the ghetto, their “feelings of unwarranted feelings of superiority” are hurt. However, this does not make them oppressed, it just limits their access to those barriers in a different degree.

            The reading of Peggy McIntosh concentrates on white privilege. McIntosh comes to describe white privilege as a “invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious”. In other words, these individuals have this subconscious knowledge of their advantage in life due to their skin color.  This way of seeing things has become such a greater issue. Individuals with white privilege, who deny having that privilege are trying to seem as if they don’t have an advantage in life, as if the system doesn’t side with them when in many cases white privilege has helped them out of sticky situations. Allena McKenzie’s Snapshot #3 could be applied to this case. Their image illustrates how much white privilege has helped white, more specifically white males, out. The media, the government, and the system in general will more likely stand behind white individuals than people of color.