As a result of reading this week’s articles, I discovered that there are four levels of oppression, all of which are interconnected and have an impact on one another. I had no idea how deeply rooted the patriarchal system is, as seen by the levels of oppression. It helped me to grasp deeply embedded patriarchy is in our culture and how frequently we fail to see how easily we may rebel against it. All we need to do is acknowledge its existence. As Allan G. points out, it seems to be much simpler to simply place the responsibility on a group of people.  In his essay Patriarchy, the System, Johnson states that “we are stuck in a model of social life that views everything as beginning and ending with individuals.” We choose to focus on particular people rather than society as a whole.  This means that while we will constantly believe that a bad situation is the result of a group of people who did something awful, we will never really get to the bottom of the problem. I had not considered it from this perspective, and I believe that it has improved my understanding of the importance of this week’s readings.