Men sincerely hold contradictory beliefs about women’s equality

Evidence

This is how many men affirm, with quasi good faith, that women are equal to men and have no demands to make, and at the same time that women will never be equal to men and that their demands are in vain. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 61

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates Beauvoir’s ‘bad faith’ — the logical contradiction men sustain by switching between abstract equality and concrete inequality depending on convenience.
• XREF: connects to: Both men and women hold pro-female rather than anti-female attitudes.; Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142; Conflicting expectations of equality and otherness produce women’s lack of balance — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 668 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• People alternately vacillate between egalitarian values and prejudiced beliefs #expands (0.90) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2096
• Both men and women hold pro-female rather than anti-female attitudes. #contradicts (0.85)
• Conflicting expectations of equality and otherness produce women’s lack of balance #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 668
• People hold logically contradictory beliefs when elements aren’t subjectively linked. #expands (0.80)
• Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy #qualifies (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142