Denying one’s sex as category is an inauthentic flight from situated reality

Evidence

To reject the notions of the eternal feminine, the black soul, or the Jewish character is not to deny that there are today Jews, blacks, or women: this denial is not a liberation for those concerned but an inauthentic flight. Clearly, no woman can claim without bad faith to be situated beyond her sex. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 51

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition: ‘bad faith’ applies not only to embracing femininity as essence but equally to denying one’s concrete sexed situation.
• XREF: Directly applies Sartre’s concept of mauvaise foi from Being and Nothingness to the gender question — foundational connection point. — connects to: Avoiding choice through victimhood excuses constitutes inauthentic existence — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 37; Denying shared humanity creates non-relation rather than strangeness within a group — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 400; Denying race as fiction is a reaction against imposed being (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Denying race as fiction is a reaction against imposed being #corroborates (0.80)
• Denying shared humanity creates non-relation rather than strangeness within a group #complicates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 400