Lesbian hostility toward men fuses feminine resentment with a masculine inferiority complex

Evidence

The lesbian would easily be able to consent to the loss of her femininity if in doing so she gained triumphant masculinity. But no. She obviously remains deprived of the virile organ; she can deflower her girlfriend with her hand or use an artificial penis to imitate possession; but she is still a eunuch. She may suffer acutely from this. Because she is incomplete as a woman, impotent as a man, her malaise sometimes manifests itself in psychoses. A patient told Roland Dalbiez, “It would be better if I had a thing to penetrate with.” Another wished that her breasts were rigid. The lesbian will often try to compensate for her virile inferiority by arrogance or exhibitionism, which in fact reveals inner imbalance. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1045 (#expands, via linked claim)

If a change is suggested to her, she throws her arms up: “That’s all I need!” She knows that her malaise is deeper than the pretexts she gives for it, and that one expedient is not enough to get rid of it; she takes it out on the whole world because it was put together without her, and against her; since adolescence, since childhood, she has protested against her condition; she was promised compensations, she was assured that if she abdicated her opportunities into the hands of the man, they would be returned to her a hundredfold, and she considers herself duped; she accuses the whole masculine universe; resentment is the other side of dependence: when one gives everything, one never receives enough in return. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1748 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lesbian relationships resist neat virile-feminine role divisions and mirror heterosexual pairings in their variety — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1075; Lesbianism is tolerated because it preserves masculine dominance — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1035; Lesbians suffer psychological malaise from being neither complete woman nor virile man — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1045 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Lesbians suffer psychological malaise from being neither complete woman nor virile man #expands (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1045
• Resentment toward the masculine universe is the necessary product of dependence #complicates (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1748