Balancing Oppression-Bria Shelby

Kevin Powell's "Confessions of a Recovering Misogynist"  reminds me of Audre Lorde's "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression". The author reminds me of how selfish some people can be because they only worry about their own lives. They only make an effort to support their own causes and it leaves other causes  to seem unimportant. When called out about being oppressive, they counter it by mentioning their own oppression which is beside the point. I think that some are just too ignorant and lazy to care about other causes. Some people may even feel subconsciously that their oppression can be undone a little by oppressing others to get a sense of power. For example, there are often lower class whites people who are racist towards people of color. They take advantage of their privilege in one area in order to try and make themselves feel better about being oppressed in other areas. The author, for instance, maybe felt that treating women like he did would make up for that fact that he had less power as a black person. It takes a strong person to set aside their own problems and help those with problems of their own. I think that Powell did a good job of realizing it although it took a long time  and a lot of transgressions to come to his epiphany.