My thoughts on the reading, “Oppression” by Marilyn Frye, I liked how she demonstrates a metaphor about oppression, for instance, she uses the birdcage as a metaphor saying why the big in the cage would not just fly around the wire anytime it wanted to go somewhere. but then you would inspect each wire you would see why a bird would have trouble going past the wire to anywhere. I thought this metaphor that she uses demonstrates oppression in that you can’t understand it by only looking at individual people, interactions, situations, or experiences. Frye mentions examples of oppression “smiling and being cheerful” if you do. you are complicit in the invisibility of your oppression. I didn’t think of that at first. This idea of oppression is a restriction, a set of barriers but not all restrictions and barriers are oppression. When Frye mentions, “Women are oppressed as women;…….. men are not oppressed as men” I didn’t think it that way but if there is no change in this structure then there is no way for women to escape this oppression.

As well My thoughts on the video were that it’s eye-opening that most of us tend to focus on what we don’t have and strive to have everything we want we forget to see what we already have and be grateful for that and realize that even if we don’t have everything we still are more privilege than most people around the world.