Oppression

In the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, women are oppressed and striped away from any of their rights. The women in the Handmaid’s Tale are classified into many different rank and position, which each different class serves a different function for this totalitarian and theocratic world of Gilean. In today’s world, such as in America, women have a social status quite equal to men that they received and protected by similar rights. As in Taiwan, women and men also have a similar social status that no one has significant advantages over one another. In our generation, we are taught at school to an idea that women are just as capable as men. However, despite all the ideology that women and men are the same, physically we are different. Men tend to be more athletic and physically more powerful than women. People may say this is sexist and oppression that this statement servers to show that men are superior over women. However, I don’t think this is a form of oppression that only by separation like in sports league and competition, the game can be fair that a woman wouldn’t be competition against a man. If a woman wishes to compete with man, I guess then it’s her freedom to do so.