The girl’s humility produces her inferiority, not the reverse

Evidence

It has often been declared that if she resigns herself to this surrender, it is because physically and morally she has become inferior to boys and incapable of competing with them: forsaking hopeless competition, she entrusts the assurance of her happiness to a member of the superior caste. In fact, her humility does not stem from a given inferiority: on the contrary, her humility engenders all her failings; its source is in the adolescent girl’s past, in the society around her, and precisely in this future that is proposed to her. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 834

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific ‘failings’ does humility generate, and how does the same causal reversal operate for other subordinated groups?
• XREF: Inverted causality echoes the existentialist priority of situation over essence and anticipates later identity-politics critiques of internalized oppression. — connects to: Low expectations for girls produce their own inferiority complex — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1938; The girl’s vanity and jealousy arise from worth hinging on others’ approbation; Self-perceived inferiority in girls arises from destined subordination, not vice versa — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 842 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The reversal — weakness as consequence rather than cause of feminine surrender — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting move against biological determinism.

Broader Connections

• Self-perceived inferiority in girls arises from destined subordination, not vice versa #corroborates (0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 842
• Low expectations for girls produce their own inferiority complex #corroborates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1938
• The girl’s vanity and jealousy arise from worth hinging on others’ approbation #expands (0.80)
• Chosen inferiority is not contentment but assumed rebellion and despair #expands (0.80)
• Attributing disadvantage to structural causes rather than personal character protects self-esteem. #complicates (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1070