In this week’s readings the Patriarchy, the System by Allan Johnson and There is No Hierarchy of oppression by Audre Lorde from what i read i can understand is that What we think of as normal life is related to male privilege, women’s oppression, and the fully, but we also avoid taking responsibility either for ourselves or for patriarchy. Instead, ‘the system’ serves as a vague, unarticulated catch-all, a dumping ground for social problems, a scapegoat that can never be held to account and that, for all the power we think it has, cannot talk back or actually do anything. In the readings it says that she has learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sex’s and colors and sexualities and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression. This I see is something that is true and it’s also a statement that I believe many people would also agree with this to me is seen as the main point of the readings its the oppression on many people with different backgrounds.