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    Sexism is a form of oppression against women as a group, ... — Carmelics
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    Sexism is a form of oppression against women as a group, even though sexism also restricts opportunities for men.

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    • 1.Oppression consists in enclosing structures that asymmetrically and unjustly disadvantage one group relative to another.
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    • 2.Although sexism restricts opportunities for both men and women, and may in pairwise comparisons harm certain men more than certain women, women as a group suffer the greater overall unjust harm from sexism.
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    • 1.Oppression requires systematic institutional enforcement of subordination, not merely asymmetric harm distribution across a group.
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    • 2.Iris Marion Young's own structural account requires identifying specific mechanisms of domination, marginalization, and powerlessness—not aggregate harm statistics.
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    • 3.Sexist norms that restrict male emotional expression, custody rights, and conscription produce institutional subordination of men in those specific domains, satisfying Young's structural criteria.
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    • 1.Catharine MacKinnon's dominance theory and Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach both locate oppression in the denial of specific, named capabilities or powers—not group-level harm aggregation.
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    • 2.Aggregating harms across a group to establish oppression obscures intra-group variation so severe—by race, class, and disability—that 'women as a group' lacks the coherence required for a meaningful oppression-claim.
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    • 3.Elizabeth Spelman's anti-essentialism in 'Inessential Woman' demonstrates that treating women as a unified oppressed group systematically privileges the experiences of white, middle-class women and misidentifies the locus of oppression.
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    As mentioned above, there are a variety of interpretations—feminist and otherwise—of what exactly oppression consists in, but the leading idea is that oppression consists in “an enclosing structure of forces and barriers which tends to the immobilization and reduction of a group or category of people” (Frye 1983: 10–11). Not just any “enclosing structure” is oppressive, however, for plausibly any process of socialization will create a structure that both limits and enables all individuals who li
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