A feminist moral theory should examine how systematic oppression reflects and reinforces domination values, and how it normalizes and buttresses vice in members of dominant groups (94).
In other words, acts of violence against women and girls are both an expression of and a way to reinforce male domination-not just over individual women and girls, but females as a whole class of people.
Demetriou (5) and Hirose and Kei-ho Pih (6) have pointed out that the construction of hegemonic masculinities can also be influenced by features of subordinated and marginalized masculinities reinforcing its domination.
The director of the French Bibliothèque Nationale publicly worried about "the risk of America reinforcing its crushing domination of future generations' understanding of the world".
Wagner scholar Paul Lawrence Rose insists that, in the allegorical scheme, "Jews are the agent of law, inhibiting the freedom to be human; they're the agents of capitalism, reinforcing repression; and domination, that's seen as a Jewish thing – the Ring gives the holder power over the world".
Meanwhile, as women change their routines and behaviour to cope with sexual harassment and assault, male-only clubs provide a privileged and exclusive space that facilitates and reinforces their domination of arenas such as politics, business and finance.
According to some eco-feminists there is a conceptual link between the "logic of domination" that operates to reinforce sexism and the logic that supports the oppression of non-human animals, a link that translates into individual and institutional practices that are harmful to both women and animals.
'Othering' describes practices of marginalization based on apparent differences, often race or ethnicity, and is 'a process that identifies those that are thought to be different from oneself or the mainstream,' which 'can reinforce power and reproduce positions of domination and subordination' (Johnson et al. 2004, 253).
He expressed bewilderment at the refusal of the United States, Britain and other Western powers to reinforce his self-adopted "front line against international Communism" — code language for black domination and a reflection of the cold war divisions of the era.
According to ecofeminist philosophers, language plays a key role in the formation of problematic concepts of women, animals, and nature concepts that reinforce the five features of an oppressive conceptual framework and contribute to the "justification" of the dominations of women, animals, and nature.
