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A Goodreads user asked Roxane Gay:

You write that, "We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics" Yet much of feminism today seems to be solely concerned with such Olympics. This is especially concerning to me given that women in Islamic countries are actually oppressed, but such Olympics are focused on 'micro-repressive trends in pop culture". Does it seem to you as if many modern feminists are no longer making progress?

Roxane Gay Rethink this question, paying particularly attention to "actually" oppressed and the implications therein for women who live in non-Islamic countries.
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