Sanctified and fairy-tale heroines alike teach girls the prestige of martyred beauty.

Evidence

Saint Blandine, white and bloody in the paws of lions, Snow White lying as if dead in a glass coffin, Sleeping Beauty, Atala fainting, a whole cohort of tender heroines beaten, passive, wounded, on their knees, humiliated, teach their younger sisters the fascinating prestige of martyred, abandoned, and resigned beauty. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 706

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs sacred hagiography with secular fairy tale; echoes the ADDENDUM on sacrifice since martyred saintly women reveal how suffering confers prestige. — connects to: Female mystics destroy their flesh to transform it from abjection into glory — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1911
• ADDENDUM: The veneration of woman-as-martyr connects to the logic of ritual sacrifice as a stabilizer — here sublimated into feminine beauty mystique.

Broader Connections

• Female mystics destroy their flesh to transform it from abjection into glory #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1911