Because Young considersĪ group to be oppressed if they can be said to face any one of the fiveĬategories of oppression, women would without a doubt be considered an “living with fear of random, unprovoked attacks” (61). Just because of their gender exemplifies Young’s definition of violence, Theįact that one out three women face rape or attempted rape in their lifetime However, MacKinnonĭoes bring up Young’s last category of oppression, violence, in her paper. On blatant gender differences to enforce discrimination. Take up the issue of cultural imperialism, because women are so distinctlyĭifferent than men that they do not feel invisible. Industries to change the pattern of injustice. Labor and powerless to the extent that they cannot take control of their Which are harming them in the first place. Positions in significant numbers, they cannot mediate the decisions of men
Top business positions as evidence that the system wants to protect maleĭominance by preventing women from entering the elite workforce, and I see itĪs an issue of Young’s powerlessness: because women cannot get executive Room for them in executive positions of industry. Women are less marginalized than some other groups in terms of employment, theĬurrent system does marginalize women in the way that it cannot or will make Society, which I see as an example of marginalization and powerlessness (88). Women face “material desperation” that drives them to the lowest paying jobs in Richer and more powerful by each dollar a woman generates. Their labor continue this system in a positive-feedback loop, with men growing The transferring of results of labor from one group to benefit another (49).Īmerica’s economy is structured so that women work for men, and the results of Young would categorize this issue as exploitation, or “other,” and anything they generate in their life is still evaluated in terms Because women are measured inĬomparison to men, they are automatically less than men because they are the MacKinnon specifically disagrees with how women are either evaluatedīy their similarities or differences to men, with men being the standard Social group oppressed by privilege men and the legal structures of capitalist MacKinnon’s discussion of gender discrimination thus focuses on women as a “structural phenomena that immobilize or diminish a group” (42).
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