Oppression chains the oppressor as much as the oppressed.

Evidence

The dialectic of the master and slave has its most concrete application here: in oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Males are in chains by their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that the wife demands checks, because men alone practice a profession that the wife demands that they succeed, because they alone embody transcendence that the wife wants to steal it from them by taking over their projects and successes. And inversely, the tyranny wielded by the woman only manifests her dependence: she knows the success of the couple, its future, its happiness, and its justification, resides in the hands of the other; if she bitterly seeks to subjugate him to her will, it is because she is alienated in him. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1370

Categorization

• XREF: Beauvoir directly reworks Hegel’s master-slave dialectic here, which she elsewhere critiques for describing a purely male affair. — connects to: Oppression begins in an act of violence and shapes both oppressors and oppressed alike — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 140; Oppressors recast the oppressed as the violent ones — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 134; Revolutionaries who internalized the oppressor can re-create oppression after taking power. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 506 (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Beauvoir here gives her concretized version of the master-slave dialectic as applied to marriage, with the wife’s tyranny as inverted dependence.

Broader Connections

• Oppression begins in an act of violence and shapes both oppressors and oppressed alike #corroborates (0.95) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 140
• Oppressed people carrying internalized oppressors will only imagine they have power #expands (0.85) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 413
• Oppressors recast the oppressed as the violent ones #expands (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 134
• Revolutionaries who internalized the oppressor can re-create oppression after taking power. #corroborates (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 506
• Oppressors invoke their own freedom to justify oppressing others #qualifies (0.80)