I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this reading. I feel like she was trying to defend women but at the same time she belittled them.
Being a woman now and having to read things like this make me happy to know I don't have to deal with things like this. If someone came up to me today and said that I wasn't considered high enough to be a human being, just the "other", I'd be pretty pissed.
Simone DeBeauvoir talks about how women are going to be considered "other" until they are able to unite and become "we." I saw where she was coming from when she said that. Unlike everyone else who had other revolutions or similar things, women had always been looked to as the other.
She also talked about how women will be slaves if they are married because all that they've always done. I think that might have applied back then but not now. Women have evolved so much within the last hundred years.
I agree with you. I felt like while she was standing up for women, she had negative things to say about them. I also feel blessed that we don't have to deal with things like this as much today.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Theorists like DeBeauvior and Mill, etc. helped form the progression of women's rights. What was going on back then was totally wrong but I think it because of it things are totally better today and still improving.
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