Violence defends male subjectivity against being objectified by others

Evidence

The male has recourse to his fists and fighting when he encounters any affront or attempt to reduce him to an object: he does not let himself be transcended by others; he finds himself again in the heart of his subjectivity. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 836

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the Sartrean for-itself/in-itself dynamic and the master-slave confrontation; also reads as inverse of the ‘reduce him to an object’ dynamic central to The Second Sex’s account of woman as being-toward-objecthood. — connects to: Male violence against women partly stems from resentment of their own bodily arousal — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 609; Violence is force that marks and transforms its object — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1817; Erotic combat between the sexes is really each person fighting their own repudiated self — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1978 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence is force that marks and transforms its object #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1817
• Male violence against women partly stems from resentment of their own bodily arousal #expands (0.80) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 609