I have not read this entire thread, but i just ran into this
Continuing the discussion from Should accusations of gaslighting be treated as accusations of lying?:
And it’s an excellent example of why the phrase “oppression pyramid” makes me cringe. It implies there’s a single dimension of oppression, up and down. And that’s so totally false. In most situations, men have more privilege than women. But there are a lot of situations where women have more privilege than men.
I happen to believe that the groups that are protected from bigoted speech on the SDMB were not picked as “high” on some ranking of oppression. I don’t think they were even all picked for exactly the same reasons. (Note the separate discussion in the rules about trans issues, for instance.)
Anyway, i suggest that “oppression pyramid” is a bad metaphor that inspires conflict as well as being a really bad description of reality. If you want me to take your argument seriously, i suggest you find better words to describe whatever it is you want to describe. @k9bfriender , for instance, was able to clearly describe a real problem he has observed using accurate words.