Aging is perceived as woman’s betrayal because her body exists for man’s use.

Evidence

However, here is the first lie, the first betrayal of woman: of life itself, which, even clothed in the most attractive forms, is still inhabited by the ferments of old age and death. The very use man makes of her destroys her most precious qualities; weighed down by childbirth, she loses her sexual attraction; even sterile, the passage of time is enough to alter her charms. Disabled, ugly, or old, woman repels. She is said to be withered, faded, like a plant. Man’s decrepitude is obviously also frightful; but normal man does not experience other men as flesh; he has only an abstract solidarity with these autonomous and foreign bodies. It is on woman’s body, this body meant for him, that man significantly feels the flesh’s deterioration. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 352

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the existentialist theme of the body-as-situation and echoes Heidegger’s thrownness — being-toward-death inscribed on the female flesh. — connects to: Woman’s aging shame stems from being an object for man’s mediation — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1709; Age combined with gender denies women the respect aging grants men

Broader Connections

• Woman’s aging shame stems from being an object for man’s mediation #corroborates (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1709
• Age combined with gender denies women the respect aging grants men #expands (0.78)