 Feminists have identified other harmful modes of psychological oppression aside from deformed desires. Stereotyping delivers messages of inferiority that the stereotyped can come to believe about themselves and then live up to. Stereotyping contributes to psychological oppression by threatening a person’s self-determination (Bartky 1990b, 23–24). Philosophers and others have recently identified the phenomenon of “stereotype threat,” which is the idea that members of subordinate groups to whom stereotypes are applied, when made aware of the stereotypes prior to performing a task such as taking a test, underperform on that task because they are preoccupied by fears of confirming those stereotypes (Saul 2013, 41). Cultural domination, or being forced to see things from the perspective of a socially dominant group, cultivates feelings of incapability and denies the values and experiences of the oppressed (Bartky 1990B, 25). Sexual objectification psychologically oppresses women because it splits a woman into two parts, identifying her as a mere bodily part or function, thereby inferiorizing her (Bartky 1990b, 26). Terror, brought about from violence and the threat of violence, inhibits coping strategies in everyday living, contributes to psychoses and neuroses, lessens trust in others, and makes victims withdraw and become less likely to strike back (Cudd 2006, 159–160). False consciousness, which is the set of false beliefs formed under and supportive of oppression, such as the belief that a woman’s place is in the home, maintains harmful stereotypes and thereby perpetuates oppression (Cudd 2006, 178–179). Members of oppressed groups often experience feelings of humiliation, degradation, shame, and low self-esteem in response to stereotyping, unequal treatment, harassment, and social distancing. These feelings diminish confidence and reinforce stereotypes of weakness, vulnerability, and inferiority (Cudd 2006, 163–165). Philosophers such as Samantha Brennan have recently identified another contributor to psychological oppression, that of microinequities (Brennan 2013). Brennan defines microinequities as small, unjust or undeserved inequalities that fall short of full-blown inequities only on the basis of their size (184). They are ways in which persons, due to features such as gender and race, are singled out, or overlooked, ignored, or otherwise discounted (184, citing Sandler 1986, 3). They are covert, often unintentional, unrecognized by the one who commits them, and hard to prove (Brennan 184, citing Rowe 2008, 45). Microinequities have a cumulative negative effect: they affect your self-value and self-esteem directly as well as indirectly, when few members of the group make it to the top because of the microinequities themselves (1880. Thus, feminists have shown that not only deformed desires, but these and other similar factors operate through women’s own psychology to help sustain their own oppression.