One statement that first struck me was “woman is losing her way, woman is lost”. It struck me because I asked myself, “Could this person be for real?” It was only the introduction, but I felt that women really has not lost her way because women are essential in the world. They are a sex just like the male sex, and one big role of woman is giving birth. As I read on, I saw that Beauvoir, author of “The Second Sex”, said that “woman is a womb”. This, I feel, validated my point.
Later on, it is said that a woman writer refused to be looked at with the other woman writers, but with the men. This somewhat shows the argument that we are all regarded as human beings and that the women are the Other that he makes notice later on.
In this passage, men are known as the Subject, while the woman is the Other. This portrays that women are defined and differentiated in reference to how the man is.
Basically, this says that women are men, and that they are just classified women in reference to the male qualities because of the women’s lack of qualities, according to Simone.
Later on, he talks about change and how the only reason why women are the “second sex” is because they do not do about change like the example used in the passage – the slavery and etc.
According to the passage, women cannot think of whiping out the males because they are essential in the creation of their identity , and basically it would be quite difficult to create offspring for a new generation.