A mother’s self-protective warning to a daughter can transmit abject terror instead of safety

Evidence

Try to understand. If such a thing happened to you, I would disown you. I did not know a thing. Sin! A vague idea, sin! If a man calls you, don’t go. Go on your way. Don’t turn back. Do you hear me? You’ve been warned, this must not happen to you, and if it happened, I would have no pity, I would leave you in the gutter. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1523

Categorization

• XREF: The quoted mother whose ‘hated consequence of a youthful error’ she sees in her daughter — a concrete case of Beauvoir’s analysis that a mother experiences the daughter as her own shame made flesh.