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If the victim is foolish enough to resist, they are responsible for whatever level of violence their oppressor uses against them.

Joy proves defiant to the shadowy oppressors who wish to see their “enemies” suffer.

"The Russians came to this country and helped the tyrants, oppressors, and invaders," says Abu Hisham, as he celebrated the fall of the regime in Damascus.

How will these elements respond — as obedient oppressors or principled protectors of popular dissent?

And in a year in which our nation's slavering fealty to billionaires could not be more brazenly, dangerously obvious, "The Feminine Mystique" remains a punch in the gut and a warning to our oppressors.