The Modern World

[Kanamori]

That is not a necessary quality, however. It could be bigoted thinking, it could be outright sexism, or it could even be that the man likes women more than men, but it cannot be called suppression. Suppression requires that one thing acts on another, and the person in this case is making an offer. An offer of something obviously cannot restrict freedom, since the offer is an addition of choice. The man may think that the woman is lesser than he, but it is still not suppression until it is forced. And it should not even be considered that walking through the door would be accepting the insult, were it one. For the man does not empower the woman; the woman empowers herself.