FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Marilyn Frye, Bechdel Test
7 Feb 2013
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How to think critically, rather than what to think. (the politics of reality- marilyn frye) Oppression- the root of the word oppression press presses are used to mould things, flatten them out, reduce them in bulk. Something pressed is caught between or among forces or barriers. Those forces and barriers are so related to one another that they jointly restrain, restrict, or prevent the things mobility or motion. (suffocate, reducing, devaluing) Typical dictionary definition- an unjust or excessive use of power, a sense of being weighed down in body or mind. Oppression is a whole set of barriers that are interrelated. Birdcage metaphor - if you look too closely at one barrier, you might not understand what the problem is. Only when we step back it"s not just one act of discrimination it"s a part of a larger system that limits, devalues a group of people. *not all forces or barriers are not oppressive*
