Simone De Beauvoir Analysis

In SImone de Beauvoir’s passage she closely follows her phenomenological approach to philosophy and explains the equality dynamics of a traditional married couple, mostly from the perspective of the man and how they change when the relationship encounters conflict. It starts of by giving us a picture that when a young woman is growing up in the family as she is “clothed in the same social dignity as the adult males”. In her eyes woman are not treated as subordinate until the male grows old enough to desire love. In this relationship the man still sees the woman as an equal. even though there are some mild differences between them, there is still a respect of the woman. He treats her as an equal and independent person that is to be wholly respected. Even though there are signs (from the …show more content…
However, when there is conflict there is, according to Beauvoir, a reversal of existing inequalities and abstract equality as the main lense a man will use to win in the conflict. Mostly by denying any sense of abstract equality and pointing out the true inequalities between them. Now, I will begin to answer the question in the prompt. one of the most important advantage men get out of gender inequality is in fact that, an advantage. If the genders were in fact equal then any conflict would be resolved on the accounts of reasoning and merit. However, it can be a long and arduous process where the male ego is challenged to reexamine itself and deal with the uncomfortablenes of being proved wrong. Again, to bypass this it is simply easier to use the existing inequalities ( i.e being the main bread winner, the typically more aggressive, so on and so on) to dominate the argument and be done with it. In Simone’s other text “ Woman as the Other” she points of that men are always the subject while woman are the “Other” and are only defined in relation the man. Hence, they are objectified and not treated as their own independent