Exalting woman as Other serves to block her entry into the human community
Evidence
It will be seen that this distinction has been perpetuated. Periods that regard woman as Other are those that refuse most harshly to integrate her into society as a human being. Today she only becomes an other peer by losing her mystical aura. Antifeminists have always played on this ambiguity. They readily agree to exalt the woman as Other in order to make her alterity absolute and irreducible, and to refuse her access to the human Mitsein. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 174
Categorization
- XREF: The exaltation-as-exclusion move echoes how white supremacy and other dominant groups praise the ‘noble savage’ to justify exclusion — a pattern also visible in Fanon’s and Said’s work. — connects to: Exalting woman spiritually sanctions her earthly subordination rather than liberating her — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 591; Woman’s defining situation is being forced to assume herself as Other — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 64; Because woman is Other, her power operates as magic against community transcendence. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 355
- SEED: An essay on how the left’s reverence for alterity can serve the same exclusionary function as the right’s contempt — admiration as a way of refusing shared humanity.
Broader Connections
- Exalting woman spiritually sanctions her earthly subordination rather than liberating her
#corroborates(0.98) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 591 - Woman’s defining situation is being forced to assume herself as Other
#expands(0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 64 - Because woman is Other, her power operates as magic against community transcendence.
#expands(0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 355