Patriarchal societies deploy myths deliberately to impose their laws

Evidence

But luxury also has its usefulness; these dreams were imperiously guided by interest. Yes, most myths have their roots in man’s spontaneous attitude to his own existence and the world that invests it: but the move to surpass experience toward the transcendent Idea was deliberately effected by patriarchal society for the end of self-justification; through myths, this society imposed its laws and customs on individuals in an imagistic and sensible way; it is in a mythical form that the group imperative insinuated itself into each consciousness. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 666

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly echoes the reader’s reading purpose about how social structures causally produce woman as Other; also connects to Gramsci’s hegemony and Althusser’s ideology materializing in everyday imagistic form. — connects to: Pre-scientific theories of conception mirrored patriarchal social myths — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 81; Patriarchal marriage domesticated feminine cosmic power into lawful order — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 367; Nation-states fabricate founding myths to legitimate class rule — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 872 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Patriarchal mythology projects its own values onto woman and calls imposed immanence her nature #expands (0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 655
• Patriarchal marriage domesticated feminine cosmic power into lawful order #exemplifies (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 367
• Mythic thinking declares women wrong when their reality contradicts the myth #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 652
• Beliefs supporting inequality or equality form distinct functional categories of legitimizing myths. #expands (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3214
• Fundamentalist myth has acquired the character of law, becoming invisible as myth #expands (0.85)
• Women’s reverence for masculine law stems from powerlessness rather than judgment #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1743
• Evangelical patriarchal culture prioritized obedience to authority over compassion and justice #exemplifies (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 653
• Women use divine authority to justify power they cannot claim as persons #exemplifies (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1766
• Nation-states fabricate founding myths to legitimate class rule #exemplifies (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 872
• Illiberal religious choices can be autonomous rather than imposed by patriarchy #qualifies (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 488