There's at least one dimension in which we all pass from marginalized to oppressor and back to marginalized again

All this talk of intersectionality is useful and great, but it tends to disguise the ways in which the various -isms are different from each other. Sexism, for instance, is the only prejudice wherein which oppressor and oppressed live intimately with each other and have to interact on a day to day basis. Homophobia is the only one wherein the oppressed …