Women denied beauty or happiness may choose victimhood as a persona

Evidence

Without beauty, brilliance, or happiness, woman will choose the character of a victim; she will obstinately embody the mater dolorosa, the misunderstood wife, she will be “the unhappiest woman in the world.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1806

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the mater dolorosa archetype in Catholic Marian devotion; also to the melancholic woman in Stekel he references. — connects to: Avoiding choice through victimhood excuses constitutes inauthentic existence — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 37; Women’s perceived faults are situational products, not essential natures — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1758