Goodwill on both sides intensifies rather than resolves gendered conflict

Evidence

A man of goodwill will be more torn by the situation than the woman herself: in one sense, one is always better off being on the side of the defeated; but if she is also of goodwill, unable to be self-sufficient, unwilling to crush the man with the weight of her destiny, she struggles with herself in an inextricable confusion. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1974

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-impossibility strains in James Baldwin’s essays on liberal goodwill and structural position. — connects to: Both sides of conflict frame themselves as victims in righteous cycles — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2172; Gender conflict persists because each sex is its own enemy’s accomplice in bad faith. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1970

Broader Connections

• Both sides of conflict frame themselves as victims in righteous cycles #complicates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2172