"Oppression by Choice" by Anne E. Cudd

I tried to apply the first tier analysis of Cudd's oppression test to the husband's situation described in "Coming Apart." My first impression was that the husband character did not meet the first tier prong of the oppression test.  According to Cudd's  "... one of the criteria of oppression ... is that one suffer harm as a result of coercion." Cudd. "Oppression by Choice." I cannot see how the husband's character is coerced to buy pornographic materials. Quoting for Cudd's article, which cites Michael Levin " ... a person is not oppressed by  feature of society if it is unintended result of "her" choices." "Oppression by Choice."  Every time the husband decides to buy pornographic material he is exercising his free will in a consumer society where we are all free to buy whatever we want so long as we have the means to pay for it. He has not been oppressed because of any coercion to buy pornography. He feels oppressed because his wife has started to question their relationship in light of her new understandings of the relationships of power that have shaped her and her African sisters' lives through history. " A necessary condition of coercion is that one lacks a choice,..." "Oppression by Choice." He lacks a choice because under his wife's new perspective of their relationship he cannot control her views or her understanding of their relationship with the American society anymore. He has no choice but to let her be her new being. She is walking away from oppression, finding choices for herself, while he has lost control over her and this leaves him without a choice over who is this person he is in a relationship with.