Is Mrs. Spitzer Oppressed?

Is Mrs. Spitzer Oppressed?

The last thing i thought I'd be blogging about is the Spitzer Scandal....but then again, it has a lot of people talking about a woman's 'role' in situations like this:

"I don't know why she stood up with him on that platform."
" i would not have done it."
"Oh yea, I would be up there with him, alright, chocking him!"

...the conversation continued among these three women as I stood in the elevator with them. And then occur ed to me, had this happened at another time, in another place- if Spitzer's name was 'different', if his wife 'looked different', then the conversation would sound different.

I imagine it would sound something like this

"those poor women over there."
"it's such an oppressive culture- the way they stand in the shadow of their husbands like that. "
"seriously. if only they could come here and see the way we live- how liberated we are."


Though many do not agree with Silda Spitzer and criticize her for standing with her husband, no one has said that she is oppressed. I'm not saying she is- I am simply questioning the use of the word here. It's funny how easily people label other people in other places as oppressed; as if oppression (of any form) does not exist in the US. Just my two cents..