I wouldn’t know what to say if I was asked indeed if there was a hierarchy of oppression, but I think Audre Lorde hits the nail right on the head with her article “There is no Hierarchy of Oppression”. This week’s reading gives very good insight to the system and its patriarchy and matters of oppression. Audre Lorde expanding and explaining the problems associated with each of the identities she ascribes to. As a woman, she faces oppression. As a black woman, she faces her own judgmental difficulties of oppression. As a Lesbian and a member of the LGBTQ community as well as being a mother. She is stating that, regardless of what you identify as, or the numerous identities you have all comes with its own dynamic struggle. People of all race and gender are oppressed. Patriarchy indeed has its own special consequences on both men and women. Society’s rules and regulations takes control of the actions of people. It does not choose a side. We are the ones who have to find solutions and/ or ways to combat these circumstances which hinder the growth of individuals and community as a whole. Just like how we learnt that that not just women encounter situations of sexisms, it is in fact a similar way by which not just women are affected by patriarchy but men as well. I found this very interesting, just like the many other reading that continue to teach and give insight to matters we have turned a blind eye to such as this one.