Divine plans are accomplished through man while woman remains a stationary auxiliary

Evidence

But if women are so singularly devoted to saintly heroism, it is above all because Claudel still grasps them from a masculine perspective. To be certain, each of the sexes embodies the Other in the eyes of the complementary sex; but to his man’s eyes it is, in spite of everything, the woman who is often regarded as an absolute other. There is a mystical surpassing insofar as “we know that in and of ourselves we are insufficient, hence the power of woman over us, like the power of Grace.” The “we” here represents only males and not the human species, and faced with their imperfection, woman is the appeal of infinity. In a way, there is a new principle of subordination here: by the communion of saints each individual is an instrument for all others; but woman is more precisely the instrument of salvation for man, without any reciprocity. The Satin Slipper is the epic of Rodrigo’s salvation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 589 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This presupposes humble renunciation on her end; but she is rewarded because guided and protected by male force, she will escape original abandonment; she will become necessary. Queen of her hive, tranquilly resting on herself within her domain, but carried by man’s mediation through the universe and limitless time, wife, mother, and mistress of the house, woman finds in marriage both the force to live and life’s meaning. We must see how this ideal is expressed in reality. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1196 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The mystical exaltation of woman still subordinates her as man’s instrument of salvation — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 589; Marriage makes woman contingent while man mediates her to the universe — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1196; A religious view of human action shapes how women survive patriarchy

Broader Connections

• The mystical exaltation of woman still subordinates her as man’s instrument of salvation #corroborates (0.86) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 589
• Marriage makes woman contingent while man mediates her to the universe #corroborates (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1196
• A religious view of human action shapes how women survive patriarchy #expands (0.72)