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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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