Word: oppression
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...such books have generally failed to change the cultural body image, probably because they go against common sense by claiming that all beauty is merely a social construct, invented to oppress women by exhausting them with an impossible quest to imitate an unnatural ideal...
...feverish rhetoric about democratic values has not been notably effective in practice. Not only are many Americans disgusted with their own politics, but Kuwait, which continues to oppress Palestinians and its other foreign workers, has made hardly a move toward actual democracy. Saddam Hussein remains in power. Hafez Assad of Syria is prospering. The Kurds are still dying, at the hands of Iraq and of our ally Turkey...
They then argue that the Holocaust is simply an ingenious Jewish invention designed to attract world sympathy, or to oppress Germans and Palestinians, or to further a Jewish conspiracy, or whatever comes to mind...
...opponents say that while political correctness resembles McCarthyism, PC is an internal movement to oppress, while McCarthyism was external to the universities...
...Independent on Sunday accused Wolf of steamrollering her experiences "into a theory which takes no account of what has been happening in the rest of the Western world." A.S. Byatt, author of the best-selling novel Possession and a former University of London lecturer, agrees that images of beauty oppress women, but she is dubious about Wolf's notion of a conscious conspiracy. Instead, she says, the beauty business is pandering to dreams...