Happy HeriticMar 10
It must be pointed out that our society, so concerned to defend the rights of the embryo, shows no interest in the children once they are born; it prosecutes the abortionists instead of undertaking to reform that scandalous institution known as 'public assistance; those responsible for entrusting the children to their torturers are allowed to go free; society closes its eyes to the frightful tyranny of brutes in children's asylums and private foster homes.
- #SimonedeBeauvoir, #TheSecondSex
Ridley ParkAug 22, 2025

Welsh’s Trainspotting meets Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Both raw, both classic. My Needle’s Edge echoes the grit—Scotland’s dialect vs. America’s motel rooms.

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/22/trainspotting-takes-over/

#Trainspotting #TheSecondSex #NeedlesEdge #AddictionLit #LiteraryFiction #BookTalk #BookDiscussion #ComparativeLiterature #ContemporaryFiction #Reading #AmREading #AmWriting #Addiction

Tucker TeagueOct 8, 2023

I thought this was an excellent lecture on the remarkable Simone de Beauvoir.

#philosophy #existentialism #phenomenology #deBeauvoir #Sartre #freedom #France #feminism #feminisme #TheSecondSex #ethics

https://youtu.be/efWqbzRB-1k?si=j-KIvtIos0-5O7VH

Simone de Beauvoir Her Life and Philosophy

YouTube
ArtizanneAug 11, 2023
https://johnmenadue.com/what-women-need-to-do-to-shift-the-continuing-unfair-gender-biases/
#gender #auspol #TheSecondSex
What women need to do to shift the continuing unfair gender biases! - Pearls and Irritations

It is up to women/feminists to fix the damage of increased social inequities and poverty undermining social cohesion and wellbeing.

Pearls and Irritations
Ellis Arcwolf (Joan Burgos)Jul 25, 2023

"One is not #born, but rather becomes, a #woman. No #biological, #psychological, or #economic destiny defines the figure that the #human #female acquires in #society; it is #civilization as a whole that develops this product, intermediate between female and #eunuch, which one calls #feminine. Only the mediation of another can establish an #individual as an #Other. In so far as he exists for himself, the #child would not be able to understand himself as sexually differentiated. In #girls as in #boys the #body is first of all the radiation of a #subjectivity, the instrument that accomplishes the comprehension of the world: it is through the eyes, the hands, and not through the sexual parts that children apprehend the universe."

—Simone de #Beauvoir, philosopher and social theorist, in The Second Sex (1949)

Just my favorite Second Wave feminist, shattering the entire concept of the gender binary and "biological womanhood" in one masterful swoop.

#trans #transgender #genderCritical #GenderCriticalsAreFascists #genderBinary #transRightsAreHumanRights #theSecondSex #SimoneDeBeauvoir #sex #adultHumanFemale #psychology #sociology #philosophy #feminism #secondWaveFeminism

SeeingMrMar 5, 2023

Copulation!
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth

#SimonedeBeauvoir
#TheSecondSex
#FeministMemes

Show threadDavid Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈Jan 9, 2023
@hilaryjohn2 Continuig toot. Also '60's / '70's influencers were 'The Walden Project' 'An experiment in social living' + the ideas of #Buckminster-Fuller, + "The personal is the political" (Attrib. Simone de Beauvoir, '#TheSecondSex') + "En recherche des temps perdue" (#Camus / #Sartre?) & much other philosophy / metaphysics. Most influential latterly has been 'The Black Swan' by NTT, Have #GeneralFactotum duties now, #MUWF xP