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It is also full of oppressed minorities struggling to be free.
Anthologies of essays, on the other hand, just make you feel oppressed.
But in Katz's world, cybernauts are oppressed daily by "The Mediaphobes," the old-media-worshipping, Judeo-Christian-ethics-preaching, backward-facing "windbags and pious souls who presume to know what is moral for you and your family."
I laughed out loud when I got to the part where the author insisted that although the "girls" (uh, we're known as women here in the Islamic world, too) "claimed" they weren't oppressed by the veil, they, like, really were.
Most women feel less oppressed by their husbands' pretensions to authority than by the work that falls to them because of their husbands' neglect.