Male-authored justifications of female subordination reflect self-interest, not truth

Evidence

“Everything that men have written about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party,” wrote Poulain de la Barre, a little-known seventeenth-century feminist. … Lawmakers, priests, philosophers, writers, and scholars have gone to great lengths to prove that women’s subordinate condition was willed in heaven and profitable on earth. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the foundational epistem: suspicion toward the judge-and-party perspective that grounds the entire feminist critique.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s knowledge of standpoint epistemology and the critique of interest-driven knowledge construction. — connects to: Men’s perspective passes as neutral truth while women’s is read as gendered — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 53; Self-perceived inferiority in girls arises from destined subordination, not vice versa — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 842; The consensuality of stereotypes contradicts their origin in individual justification — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2888 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-perceived inferiority in girls arises from destined subordination, not vice versa #contradicts (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 842
• The consensuality of stereotypes contradicts their origin in individual justification #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2888