Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”

The main thesis de Beavoir tries to get across is that women are fundamentally oppressed by men who characterize them as the “other.” Women are incomplete when compared to men because men are superior and unbound. Men can extend their wills out to other people to change the world around them, but women are supposed to be meek, quiet, and are expected to take the backseat in the game of life. Men are the subjects in the world and women are just some other object. In the reading, one opinion on why women are classified as “the second sex”  is because they must be compared to men due to their lack of qualities and qualifications. These are just a few ways Simone de Beauvoir talks about the women’s role in life compared to that of men.

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