 One significant issue relating to deformed desires is autonomy, which is commonly defined as self-determination or self-direction. On the face of it, an agent’s satisfying her deformed desires seems to stand in the way of promoting her autonomy, for if the satisfaction of deformed desires in reality benefits the system of domination and the privileged persons in it, then satisfying deformed desires does not seem to be an indication of the agent’s self-determination, but rather the agent’s subordination to the system and its ends. Another way that deformed desires are suspect for reasons relating to autonomy is that they are unchosen, the result of adaptation to one’s opportunities and without one’s awareness or control, as Elster’s “sour grapes” phenomenon describes. Moreover, the more deformed desires an agent has in her total desire set, the greater the likelihood that she will be under their sway, since they will not be counteracted by nondeformed desires. And the more likely the agent is under the sway of her deformed desires, the less likely she will be self-determining. The issue bears on women’s oppression because if the agent acts mostly from her deformed desires, she is likely to contribute to her own oppression.