Sexual equality would largely erase the obstacle to heterosexual intimacy

Evidence

Were equality of the sexes concretely realized, this obstacle would be in large part eradicated; but man is still imbued with his own sense of superiority, which is a disturbing conviction for the woman who does not share it. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1041

Categorization

• XREF: Prefigures the materialist-feminist claim that women’s ‘choice’ of men is contingent on concrete equality — echoes her own conclusion at the end of the book.