#simone debeauvoir

[fuckyeahfemininity-blog1]

Few myths have been more advantageous to the ruling cast than the myth of woman: it justifies all privileges and even authorizes their abuse

Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex

[seraphsound]

The majority of women resign themselves to their lot without attempting to take any action; those who have tried to change it have intended not to be confined within the limits of the peculiarity and cause it to triumph, but to rise above it. When they have intervened in the world’s affairs, it has been in accord with men, in masculine perspectives.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

[tonelangengen]

[bussylini]

All that an external action can propose is to put the oppressed in the presence of his freedom: then he will decide positively and freely. The fact is that he decides against oppression, and it is then that the movement of emancipation really begins. For if it is true that the cause of freedom is the cause of each one, it is also true that the urgency of liberation is not the same for all; Marx has rightly said that it is only to the oppressed that it appears as immediately necessary. As for us, we do not believe in a literal necessity but in a moral exigency; the oppressed can fulfill his freedom as a man only in revolt, since the essential characteristic of the situation against which he is rebelling is precisely its prohibiting him from any positive development; it is only in social and political struggle that his transcendence passes beyond to the infinite.

-The Ethics of Ambiguity | Simone DeBeauvoir

[sartretorialist-blog]

"Modesty is a virtue of the lukewarm."  Sartre practiced what he preached, dressing himself in high risk/high reward- or as he would have put it- "freezing cold/ boiling hot" ensembles such as this.

[jessicaliz]

Just purchased "The Ethics of Ambiguity" by Simone de Beauvoir for $.01 on Amazon.

and "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre for $4.99. Way too excited for both of these!

[seafurthur]

Ready or not...here I go!

First test is at 10 (first class) and the second (German..the one I fear for) is at 5pm. I have a break from classes from 4-5 so here's hoping I can cram some last little bits of knowledge in me.

Also, anxiety is an incredibly annoying thing to live with, and the fact it can "resurface" bothers me all the more. 

ALSO ALSO, Happy International Women's Day!  Take a moment today to participate in any events your school/city might be hosting. I plan to cuddle up with my good friend Simone DeBeauvoir when I get home tonight ;3

[handprintstares]

I've decided to begin reading Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity. Again. (I gave up after a few weeks last time).