Bourgeois ‘honor’ of women functions as a trap that relieves them of all responsibility.

Evidence

The married woman is a slave who must be seated on a throne,” says Balzac; of course men must give in to women in all irrelevant circumstances, yielding them first place; women must not carry heavy burdens as in primitive societies; they are readily spared all painful tasks and worries: at the same time this relieves them of all responsibility. It is hoped that, thus duped, seduced by the ease of their condition, they will accept the role of mother and housewife to which they are being confined. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 255

Categorization

• DEFINE: Exemplifies how chivalric respect is really subjugation — a core way Beauvoir reads ‘honoring’ women as a mechanism of domination.
• XREF: connects to: Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352

Broader Connections

• Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352