Analysis of "Oppression" by Mariyln Frye
...xperiences from the oppressed. The most common is the double bind which deprives and limits people’s options. As for example, how people judge women by their sexual activity. Whether you are sexually active or not, you are equally judged as bad. Women are oppressed in everyday life whether it is their kind of job, economic situation or the way they dress. They are always limited in their options and subjected to judgment. They are “caught in a bind, caught between systematically related pressures”. Frye calls this system a “cage”, an analogy to oppression. She points out that oppression is a systematic issue. People are oppressed not only because they shaped or confined by barriers but because they are trapped in a “cage”. This “cage” that can’t be seen if you examine only the wires or barriers (the microscopic view) but have to see it as a whole (the macroscopic view). That’s why it is hard to recognize and see when one is caged or oppressed. Such an example is the “male door-opening ritual”. It is common for a man to open a door for women as a good gesture but it may also be perceived as offensive. If you see it as a pattern as a whole then the door-opening is no longer a good gesture, it is false. Why will a man help open a door for a woman that it is physically capable of doing it? Why don’t they help in other cases when one is really in need of help? For F...