In the end, his adviser’s demand that he broaden his topic had served a subversive purpose she hardly could have intended: Lyosha wrote about different minority groups as though they were equal to one another. He did point out that homosexuals in Russia had been granted only the bare minimum of legal rights—the right not to be treated as criminals—and had not yet reached full equality with the majority. Still, he wrote about gay people the same way that he wrote about women and ethnic minorities and his dissertation stressed the assumption that he was describing a process of inexorable
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Yep. If even one is oppressed, oppresses everybody. And the degree and impact across marginalized groups cam be quite different. But they are still being excluded because of a difference -- and that is very galvanizing.
