So I used the term "Oppressed-A-Thon" in another post and I thought I should define it. I got the idea from this brilliant entry.
Oppressed-A-Thon--An unintentionally amusing pastime, in which flummoxed pundits unable to make heads or tails out of actual human beings, engage in a dubious contest to prove that said human beings' respective group is more doomed, victimized, and otherwise shat-upon than all other doomed, victimized and presumably shat-upon groups.
"Misoginy is the last acceptable prejudice"--Katha Pollit
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is."--Geraldine Ferraro
"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger."--Rev. Jeremiah Wright
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/03/oppressed-a-thon-defined-or-the-olympics-for-historically-screwed-over-people/5335/
