Men oppress women to flee themselves by alienating in an other.

Evidence

We have seen why men originally enslaved women; the devaluation of femininity was a necessary step in human development; but this step could have brought about a collaboration between the two sexes; oppression is explained by the tendency of the existent to flee from himself by alienating himself in the other that he oppresses for that purpose; this tendency can be found in each individual man today: and the vast majority give in to it; a husband looks for himself in his wife, a lover in his mistress, in the guise of a stone statue; he seeks in her the myth of his virility, his sovereignty, his unmediated reality. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1971

Categorization

• DEFINE: Recasts ‘the other’ from Hegelian/Sartrean abstract concept into a concrete psychological mechanism of men’s self-alienation in women.
• XREF: This is her psychological application of the Sartrean bad faith and the for-itself’s flight from itself; ties to The Second Sex’s earlier immanence/transcendence framework and to ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s logic of projected otherness. — connects to: Men want women to exist but refuse to be women themselves — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 319; The failure to possess woman drives man into self-alienation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 355; Men and women express prejudice through different evolved strategies, fear versus aggression — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1196

Broader Connections

• Men and women express prejudice through different evolved strategies, fear versus aggression #expands (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1196