Yin Lin Reflection 3

This week’s reading is about oppression and privilege. Marilyn Fyre’s book was well wrapped and in the book she analyze the difference between being miserable and oppression because everyone can be able to feel miserable but only certain group would suffer from oppression. Because oppression is built by people who would benefit from it. Being frustrated can be applied to everyone too because people have emotions that related to frustrated, but oppression is happening everywhere, even about the way you can do to release your emotions. If you are oppressive, you are expected to behave in certain way and if you behave don’t match with the stereotype, You can not be the normal you because that right is being oppressive, you only can behave like the oppression system expect you to do. Otherwise, they could label you. As long as you won’t behave as the society expect you to do, you are in trouble.

If you are a girl, you are expected to be good, gentle, nice and so on. If you behave anti-oppression, the society and people around you would label you or othering you, “act like a boy!” something like this would come out from their word. But it doesn’t matter what people. They would not use the same standard for you. You have to be stronger and stronger. Even you were trying your best to be stronger or control your emotions, you would know it is not the ending. Things similar like that would happen and there is no limitations.

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