Patriarchal mythology projects its own values onto woman and calls imposed immanence her nature

Evidence

Very often they project the values and institutions to which they adhere onto the myth they adopt. Thus paternalism that calls for woman to stay at home defines her as sentiment, interiority, and immanence; in fact, every existent is simultaneously immanence and transcendence; when he is offered no goal, or is prevented from reaching any goal, or denied the victory of it, his transcendence falls uselessly into the past, that is, it falls into immanence; this is the lot assigned to women in patriarchy; but this is in no way a vocation, any more than slavery is the slave’s vocation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 655

Categorization

• DEFINE: The key causal mechanism: myth follows needs, and paternalism defines woman as immanence; also defines immanence as transcendence fallen back on itself for lack of goals.
• XREF: Directly builds on Beauvoir’s immanence/transcendence framework from the intro; the phrase ‘any more than slavery is the slave’s vocation’ mirrors the bad-faith denial that assigned conditions are vocations. — connects to: Woman’s apparent naturalness is itself a product of history; Female virtue is the broken form in which exploited nature enters male culture — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 256; Patriarchy mythologized its triumph as a violent cosmic conquest over feminine chaos. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 169 (+13 more)
• SEED: The mechanism ‘myth follows need, then pretends to be nature’ could anchor an essay on how moral panics and gendered archetypes get projected onto structural arrangements.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that imposed condition is mistaken for vocation — that lack of transcendence goals gets reified as woman’s essence — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting mechanism for reading gender essentialism.

Broader Connections

• Patriarchal religions purify woman of her stained nature through male-defined submission #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 170