Watching the video and doing the reading helped me define the concepts of privilege and oppression: that privilege is an unearned advantage, right or that is not available to everyone, but only a specific group of people. Oppression is the exercise of authority or power cruelly or unjustly. Human beings can be miserable without being oppressed. One can not judge oppression by looking at one incident. Some way that I feel I experience privilege is I have hard-working parents who work nights or weekends to support the family or even to provide food and other things. I experienced privilege when I was able to go to school when others can not go to school. I experienced oppression when I worked as a cashier at a small store and I have been hearing people who don’t have anything nice to say but like to talk about how the people in my country are disgusting. When my people even the people that my parents have come from, are working hard people. This person doesn’t even know what type of person we are. There is this thing where racism can be an oppression thing for people. 

In the reading “Oppression” by Marilyn Frye, Frye points out very good points and how is discussed how a birdcage symbolizes the systematic oppression of women. I do agree with her point of view that women are oppressed, but also I do not agree that it’s just women who are oppressed. Those men are also oppressed too. But also I think that women are more oppressed than men. “We need to think clearly about oppression, and there is much that mitigates against this. I do not want to undertake to prove that women are oppressed (or that men are not), but I want to make clear what is being said when we say it. We need this word, this concept, and we need it to be sharp and sure.” (Pg11). Frye goes on to point out that the root of the word oppression is an element of the press. As she explains “Something pressed is something caught between or among forces and barriers which are so related to each other that jointly restrain, restrict, or prevent the thing’s motion or mobility. Mold. Immobilize. Reduce…”. Frye also points out how men can’t cry, women can’t take up space. Here she wants to suggest that one restriction is an element of oppression and the other no.