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

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

Simone de Beauvoir Her Life and Philosophy

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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

"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

@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