Excerpt from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (translated)

Lost_Kale90 · 2021-12-17T20:50:32+00:00

Link to pdf

daisy_0720 · 2021-12-18T07:47:51+00:00

"It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige."

Damn. This is exactly what's happening with the current day trend of girls going into sex work/OnlyFans. Women willingly shackling themselves to be degraded objects for the 'prestige' of male attention.

StrawberryMoon3 · 2021-12-17T23:53:07+00:00

It's a shame Simone was a pick me

blueveinnoble · 2021-12-17T23:44:30+00:00

This one is tough to take a definitive stance on. For me, being in the workforce is just as humiliating as being in the home as mommybangmaid. The patriarchy is no where, more prevalent, than in corporate America. I've worked at/with major companies and still, I was made into secretaryworkwifemaid. No autonomy or ability to state my own concerns/preferences. The backlash is implicit. Male and female take part in orchestrating the dominance hierarchy. It's inescapable.

It's a little misplaced to pit women of one class against the other. I guess it's a case of "grass is greener". The textile worker looks up at the housewives as "spoiled/priveliged", yet she is merely an indentured servant. The bourgeoisess looks down on the working woman, and sees a hard-nosed worker.

When in reality, they are both bound. And in both cases, it's the very same man who profits!!

Emergency-Feed8216 · 2021-12-21T05:15:06+00:00

De Beauvior and Sartre passed teenage girls back and forth as fuck dolls, then mocked the girls brutally in their letters to each other.

When I read Second Sex in high school, I missed the fact that it dripped with contempt and victim-blaming misogyny. And no wonder. She was the quasi Ghislaine Maxwell of her time.

I recently spoke to a former model I know about her near-rape experience with the infamous head of Elite in France. She was in the midst of thinking about and processing how female bookers were actively pimping young girls to these old monsters, knowing full well what went on.

It made me think of ape studies where token females are sometimes brought along on lethal raids (chimpanzee war) if these females displayed willingness to engage in torture and murder for an extra hunk of banana.

Simone de Beauvoir got her hunk of banana in a time when women were barely visible in the intellectual arena. She ripped off a few ears with her teeth and gouged some eyes out to get there like a proper token chimp female. And she got some stuff published. Now it's interesting comparing what she wrote to the memoirs of victims.

ShegoGreen · 2021-12-17T23:24:32+00:00

I don't know how much I agree with this because some women genuinely find fulfillment in being homemakers without feeling as though they are, "seduced by the ease of their condition."

Title	Excerpt from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (translated)
Author	Lost_Kale90
Upvotes	349
Comments	17
Date	December 17, 2021 8:49 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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