Passivity is dangled as a temptation that girls yield to as transcendence is blocked

Evidence

Earlier I recalled that in addition to the authentic claim of the subject who claims sovereign freedom, there is an inauthentic desire for renunciation and escape in the existent; these are the delights of passivity that parents and educators, books and myths, women and men dangle before the little girl’s eyes; in early childhood she is already taught to taste them; temptation becomes more and more insidious; and she yields to it even more fatally as the thrust of her transcendence comes up against harsher and harsher resistance. But in accepting her passivity, she also accepts without resistance enduring a destiny that is going to be imposed on her from the exterior, and this fatality frightens her. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 714

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the existentialist pair authentic (sovereign freedom) vs. inauthentic (renunciation/escape) as applied to the girl.
• XREF: connects to: Blocked transcendence leaves woman unable to be defined by her acts — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 662; Female passivity is socially imposed, not biologically determined, and self-reinforces through a vicious circle — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 691

Broader Connections

• Female passivity is socially imposed, not biologically determined, and self-reinforces through a vicious circle #corroborates (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 691