An effective counter argument that I've used seems to be: "We're not like you. We don't want to be your victims. We don't have a victim complex because being your victim is a bad thing that does not give us social credit points."
So far, "Being a victim is a bad thing" is so far outside their understanding of reality, that they don't really know what to do with that information, and they have to deflect to another topic or issue.
I think most of them will just short circuit into their oppressor/oppressed dichotomy and not even acknowledge the doublethink involved with declaring themselves to be eternal victims of oppression while using the accusation of "oppression complex" as an insult.
They are oppressed, by (their) definition, and therefore cannot have an oppression complex, by (their) definition.
You know, now that you put it like that, it's a very female thing where anything that remotely resembles a grievance of theirs is evidence of that grievance continuing, no matter how innocuous it is.
"Stop oppressing us!"
You're not oppressed. You can do pretty much whatever you want as long as you don't force it on anyone else and leave children alone.
"OMG! Conservatives have an oppression complex!"
An effective counter argument that I've used seems to be: "We're not like you. We don't want to be your victims. We don't have a victim complex because being your victim is a bad thing that does not give us social credit points."
So far, "Being a victim is a bad thing" is so far outside their understanding of reality, that they don't really know what to do with that information, and they have to deflect to another topic or issue.
I think most of them will just short circuit into their oppressor/oppressed dichotomy and not even acknowledge the doublethink involved with declaring themselves to be eternal victims of oppression while using the accusation of "oppression complex" as an insult.
They are oppressed, by (their) definition, and therefore cannot have an oppression complex, by (their) definition.
You know, now that you put it like that, it's a very female thing where anything that remotely resembles a grievance of theirs is evidence of that grievance continuing, no matter how innocuous it is.