For De Beauvoir, the masculine majority creates women as other. By way of definition, man interprets himself by that which is NOT feminine, or what De Beauvoir would call, a dialectical process of self-construction. Man is a subject, whereas woman is the object of possession. If a woman is seen at all, it is most often purely as a sexual or biological object. To answer the question “what is women?”, De Beauvoir asserts that “no answer is adequate, because a fundamental ambiguity marks the feminine being.” If our human condition is ambiguity, that means that we exist and create our meaning through choices and actions we decide on. She asserts, “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.”
