[quote foxgoosefinch]@suggestionsplease1 - it’s highly disingenuous to make that kind of comparisons with race, since you’re intentionally glossing over the fact that the structural analogy doesn’t work.
“White oppressor vs non-white people” very clearly does not map onto “female oppressors vs the non-female oppressed”. It’s been pointed out many times that this analogy which presents women as the oppressors of men is not only is highly offensive in terms of its racial politics, but rather obviously and glaringly shows up the falsities of that position.
No doubt you think it’s a very clever analogy, but as I recall Murray’s book was freely available in bookshops, reviewed in the press, and widely debated as an argument - I recall a PSE lesson in secondary school in which we were asked to debate and disprove the claims in it - since in those days people regarded controversial opinions as things to be disproved by rational argument, not mass hysteria and cancellation.[/quote]
Wow, how wrong can you be on the structural analogy?!
Do you think it is only possible for a 1st category to oppress a 2nd category?! As if they were linear items on a 2 item scale?!
Have you set yourself up as the determiner and definer of categories?!!
Do you see no scope for multiple categories existing on a fluctuating and multi-dimensional hierarchical structure where the (for eg.) 2nd, 3rd, 21st category from the top may oppress the (for eg.) 15th, 18th, 21st category down (at that particular moment in time, in that country and cultural context?)