#art #history: 'one's life has value so long as one attributes value to the lives of others.' 
this is exceptionally good advice at all times. keep it close - & happy simone de beauvoir day, everyone. :) #botd #illustration #feminism
#existentialism #simoneDeBeauvoir #literature #theSecondSex

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

https://johnmenadue.com/what-women-need-to-do-to-shift-the-continuing-unfair-gender-biases/
#gender #auspol #TheSecondSex

"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

Copulation!
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth

#SimonedeBeauvoir
#TheSecondSex
#FeministMemes

@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