In the article, “Oppression,” Marilyn Frye talks about a number of interlocking systems of oppression. Interrelated forces that press down on people who belong to one group (such as women or people of color) and effect their subordination to another group (such as men or white people). I believe when we say that women are oppressed as women, but men are not oppressed as men, we are not saying that men don’t suffer or don’t have feelings. I think its referring to a systematic oppression of certain groups that people are born into.

Peggy McIntosh in her article, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” she recognizes that hierarchies and systems of oppression interlock and intersect must also be a phenomenon of white privilege that was similarly denied and protected. Peggy depicts on people of color are made to lack confidence and feel uncomfortable and alienated to how white people are made confident and comfortable. Reading both articles helped me realize I can’t unpack my own knapsack without helping someone else unpack theirs. The advantages of a social group to which we as people personally belong to at the expense of the people in one or more other groups. Its also sad that we let ourselves succumb to the system of oppression without realizing the power that we have as human beings.