Institutional oppression

Institutional oppression occurs when established laws, customs, and practices systematically reflect and produce inequities based on one’s membership in targeted social identity groups. Some examples of institutional oppression of boys are that young boys are drugged and zombified with methamphetamine based pharmaceuticals at three times the rate of girls, all for exhibiting normal male behavior; young boys are methodically excluded from programs that can aid them in science, math, and computer programming, leaving them to fend for themselves; and young girls are encouraged to invade traditionally male spaces like gaming and sports while men are excluded from female spaces.