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Oppression By Marilyn Frye Summary

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In “Oppression,” Marilyn Frye uses a birdcage as a metaphor to describe the invisible and visible effects that oppression can have on society (151). Frye further argues how an observer failing to see why the cage is a prison to the bird is like someone failing to treat oppression as a “whole” (151). The author’s creative approach spurred me to think of other “bird cages” presently in our society. Specifically, I wonder how the people within the “bird cages” I present become invisible in the cage.

For instance, prisons and psychiatric hospitals are a representation of a “bird cage.” In the United States, currently, millions of African American youth who committed petty crimes are placed with hard-core criminals. Consider, Kalief Browder,

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