Almost everyone has experienced a time in their life when they felt wrongly judged or even oppressed either by another person, institution, or by society. Think deeply about this time in your life and, using the Theory of Social Oppression, explain what you learned about yourself and what you would do if the situation happened again. How will this experience help you to provide care to a person from a different culture that has been oppressed physically, emotionally, or economically?
I am a self dependent woman today and a mother of a son. At the age of 25, when I look back and see, I realize that my life has not been a cake walk. No matter wherever you be in the world, it is a man dominated society. Although I am well educated, I still had to face a lot of oppression from my husband. He used to have full control over me even though I used to earn more than him. He took my entire salary and used it for himself. There was a time when I delivered my first baby and could not earn a handsome amount. At that time as well, he hit me hard on my face for not making up the usual earning. I have been so very depressed after such incidences. I have lost my self confidence and developed an inferiority complex wherever I go outside my home.
I hate living with my husband since then and I am only making a living because of my son. It’s been 3 years now and slowly and gradually I have started living a new life. I strictly separated my income from that of my husband’s and today I live on my own with my son. My husband wants us to come back to him but I have not decided not live with him anymore. I am a strong woman today and can easily make up my living with my son. I wish it happens with no other lady cause it’s really not easy to come out of such a pain in life. Although, I was fortunate to come out of the depression, most woman stay like that for the entire life and end up ruining the rest of their lives.
Conclusion
Today, I am completely prepared and confident to face such a situation in life, if at all it occurs again. I have also decided to open up a charitable women care center where care and support will be provided to women like me who are victims of social oppression from either husband, mother in law or a society as a whole.
