Gender Superiority

Still processing Yen’s Chapter 7, in particular “gender is a key to immigrant identity and a vehicle for racialized immigrants to assert cultural superiority over the dominant group” Gender thus becomes the tool to assert and reclaim power that was denied through racism. Now, can race become the tool to assert and reclaim power that was denied through race? I’m stuck on this question simply because I don’t know if there is really a solution to this. I can understand how class can become a tool to assert and reclaim power that was denied through race in that we can say that Filipinos own their homes, work hard, etc. Because of that we can say that we’re better than the dominant group. But in terms of gender, how can we use either class or race to assert gender superiority? I’m asking these questions because I’m trying to understand how a national democratic movement which can easily understand the relationship between Filipino and poverty (race/ethnicity and class) interweaves gender? If the class situation in the Philippines is resolved what does that mean for gender oppression? How can people assert their gender superiority? I’m assuming that there might be an understanding that race is related to class, but how often to people think about its relation to gender and how there is multiple oppression. note that this is only one focus of oppression, we can also talk about sexuality, but at a later point so how do we have a movement, a social justice movement that will push forth an agenda of uplifting the Filipino community and instilling economic power to the country if the community relies on the virtuousity and morality of Filipinas? What happens to the women?

Does this make sense?