"Because they beat us on the head so much, because they oppressed us so much," she said of the Taliban.
I do not blame Egyptians for what happened to my father; their government oppressed them much more ruthlessly and systematically.
In their dark garden, Mr. Rogers and his family do not feel oppressed so much as frustrated -- and chilly, because of the lack of sun.
THAT men are now sized up on the basis of their appearances, that this scrutiny has brought on an epidemic of anxiety and has come to oppress men much as it has oppressed women, and that men have consequently begun paying more attention to their looks -- none of this will come as news to anyone who has been awake for the past 30 years.
Norma Waterson used to say that the English mainly oppressed themselves as much as other peoples' music".
"In England, people lived in a society that had been oppressed for so much longer.
Despite our differences, we shared a radical idealism – a dream of what the world could and should be – free from not just homophobia but the whole sex-shame culture, which oppressed straights as much as LGBTs.
And, sure, it does raise genuine concerns about mandatory conscription and child custody, but I definitely didn't walk out of the cinema holding my flexed bicep and chanting, "We can do it, too!" All in all, it didn't really sell its central premise that men are oppressed just as much, if not more, than women.
They are, if anything, anti-Oedipal in their insistence that all is the fault of the mother -- that children are oppressed either by too much love (Mr. Singleton's thesis) or too little (Mr. Spielberg's).
The poor and the oppressed may not have much, but they do have the numbers, which is what matters at the ballot box.
