True happiness requires a freedom neither gender currently possesses

Evidence

Within the given world, it is up to man to make the reign of freedom triumph; to carry off this supreme victory, men and women must, among other things and beyond their natural differentiations, unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1983 (#expands, via linked claim)

Here again, for the woman to be in love like a man—that is to say, without putting her very being into question, freely—she would have to think herself his equal, and be his equal concretely: she would have to commit herself with the same decisiveness to her enterprises, which, as we will see, is still not common. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1933 (#expands, via linked claim)

No authentic work of art or true philosophy, Adorno suggests, has been exhausted in its purity and isolation. According to their inner meaning, their insistence on their separation from the actual life-process of society, their ‘very rejection of the guilt of a life which blindly and callously reproduces itself’, implies, however implicitly or unconsciously, the promise of happiness, the promise of a state where freedom would be realized. But this promise must remain equivocal so long as culture is purchased at the price of domination. Culture, as it is now conceived of, exists because freedom does not. Culture’s power, which is co-extensive with its impotence, is its withdrawal from praxis; this renunciation was forced on culture by history. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 46 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freedom’s triumph requires men and women to affirm their shared humanity beyond natural differences — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1983; Culture’s promise of happiness is equivocal because it exists only where freedom does not — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 46; Loving freely like a man requires concrete equality, not just belief in it. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1933 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom’s triumph requires men and women to affirm their shared humanity beyond natural differences #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1983
• Loving freely like a man requires concrete equality, not just belief in it. #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1933
• Culture’s promise of happiness is equivocal because it exists only where freedom does not #corroborates (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 46