Men survive rupture through their own life while abandoned women lose everything.

Evidence

A rupture can deeply mark a man: but in the end, he has his life as man to live. The abandoned woman is nothing, has nothing. If she is asked “How did you live before?” she cannot even remember. She let fall into ashes the world that was hers to adopt a new land from which she is brutally expelled; she gave up all the values she believed in, broke off her friendships; she finds herself without a roof over her head and the desert all around her. How could she begin a new life when outside her lover there is nothing? — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1882

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to immanence/transcendence framework — the woman has made the lover her sole transcendence, so his departure collapses her world entirely. — connects to: Passionate women experience a totalizing misery that men’s activities spare them; Woman’s life stages are sharply discontinuous while man’s aging is continuous — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1707
• DEEPTHINKING: The asymmetry of rupture — man retains his life as man, woman has surrendered every value and friendship to the lover — is the chapter’s bleakest, most concrete instantiation of woman’s Otherness made self-inflicted.

Broader Connections

• Passionate women experience a totalizing misery that men’s activities spare them #corroborates (0.85)
• Woman’s life stages are sharply discontinuous while man’s aging is continuous #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1707