We would like to think that we live in a fair and just world, but virtually everything that surrounds us tells us differently; so what we see and know is that actually far too often this world is unfair and unjust, which is unfortunate, but true. What makes this unjustness and unfairness especially of concern to each one of us is that even in our familial relationships, we are prone to that very same theme of injustice.
So then, it follows that what we often find is that those that feel that they are oppressed within a personal relationship will at some point, reach that breaking point and thereby will respond to that criticism or oppression, with often a response that will not be a reasoned one, but instead will be prone to and susceptible to a high degree of emotion and even hysteria. The reason why this is so, is that those that feel that they are within that particular construct, of an inferior position, will often not reasonably believe that a reasonable response is going to avail them of much of anything; whereas an emotional and hysterical response might well serve to get across the point, that they have reached their breaking point and thereby should be left alone.
For the most part, hysteria has its place and time, for those that get hysterical have often done so, because they feel that they have nowhere to extricate themselves out of their current hopeless situation, except to respond in the most intemperate manner, in the hopes that by doing so, that they will perhaps knock the person that is in the superior position, off of their perch, or at least get that perch to tilt to the side a little bit. So too, those that are constantly on the receiving end of criticism and belittlement, are also going to have a very strong tendency to take what has been done to them, and search for someone or something to direct their inward anger against; so that, sad to say, the victim of oppression, becomes often in a different scenario and with a different person, the oppressor of that person, utilizing as their tool of trade, that same sort of oppressive stratagem against another.
This signifies that what we find is that those who are oppressed, and without the capability to defend themselves in a mature and reasoned manner, are going to from time-to-time strike back against their oppressor by some sort of emotional overreaction or through subterfuge or both. So too, oppressed people, often are in search of those situations in which they can regain their footing and get their own self-respect back, thereby making them prone to utilizing the very same actions that they so richly despise against someone that is weaker than their own self. This thus perpetuates the dynamic of oppression and the overreaction to such, until somebody, somewhere, ends that cycle of negativity and emotional destruction.
Far too often, those that lord it over others, do not realize that their actions, have consequences that they have not fully contemplated upon; so that, the evil and the wrong that we do, may, in fact, live on and extend much further, than we ever could have imagine it so becoming.