A woman is not distinguished from her appearance, while a man’s clothing is incidental

Evidence

The man barely has to care about his clothes; they are comfortable, adapted to his active life, and need not be original; they are hardly part of his personality; what’s more, no one expects him to take care of them himself: some woman, volunteer or paid, delivers him from this chore. The woman, on the other hand, knows that when people look at her, they do not distinguish her from her appearance: she is judged, respected, or desired in relation to how she looks. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1921

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly advances the ‘Grafting & Growth’ style materialist analysis pattern: social structure imposes unpaid maintenance labor on women’s bodies in a way men are exempted from.
• XREF: connects to: Woman’s dependence is interiorized while man’s is only external. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1370; Woman’s subordinate situation makes her lovable but not genuinely equal in man’s eyes. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1930; Women alter dress to escape the citizen gaze, not male oppression — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 521 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Women’s religious dress is read as coercion while men’s is not #exemplifies (0.90)
• Women alter dress to escape the citizen gaze, not male oppression #expands (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 521
• Both sexes implicitly center perspective on the male, making woman the object #corroborates (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 681
• Woman’s defining situation is being forced to assume herself as Other #qualifies (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 64