(Paris, 1908-1986) French thinker and novelist, representative of the atheist existentialist movement and an important figure in the vindication of women's rights. Originally from a bourgeois family, she stood out from an early age as a brilliant student. She studied at the Sorbonne and in 1929 she met Jean-Paul Sartre, who became her companion for the rest of her life.
He graduated in philosophy and until 1943 he devoted himself to teaching at the lycées of Marseilles, Rouen and Paris. His first work was the novel The Guest (1943), followed by The Blood of Others (1944) and the essay Pyrrhus and Cineas (1944). She participated intensely in the ideological debates of the time, harshly attacked the French right wing and assumed the role of a committed intellectual. In her literary texts she revised the concepts of history and character and incorporated, from an existentialist point of view, the themes of "freedom", "situation" and "commitment".
Together with Sartre, Albert Camus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, among others, she founded the magazine Tiempos Modernos, whose first issue was published on October 15, 1945 and became a political and cultural reference of French thought in the mid-twentieth century. Subsequently, he published the novel All Men Are Mortal (1946), and the essays For a Morality of Ambiguity (1947) and America a Day (1948).
Her book The Second Sex (1949) was a theoretical starting point for various feminist groups, and became a classic work of contemporary thought. In it she elaborated a history of the social condition of women and analyzed the different characteristics of male oppression. She asserted that by being excluded from the processes of production and confined to the home and reproductive functions, women lost all social ties and with them the possibility of being free. She analyzed the gender situation from the point of view of biology, psychoanalysis and Marxism; she destroyed feminine myths, and urged the search for authentic liberation. She argued that the struggle for the emancipation of women was distinct from and parallel to the class struggle, and that the main problem to be faced by the "weaker sex" was not ideological but economic.
Simone de Beauvoir founded with some feminists the League of Women's Rights, which set out to react firmly to any sexist discrimination, and prepared a special issue of Modern Times devoted to the discussion of the subject. She won the Prix Goncourt with The Mandarins (1954), in which she dealt with the difficulties of post-war intellectuals in assuming their social responsibility. In 1966 she participated in the Russell Tribunal, in May 1968 she showed solidarity with the students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, in 1972 she presided over the Choisir association, in charge of defending free contraception, and until her last days she was a tireless fighter for human rights.
Her abundant testimonial and autobiographical titles include Memoirs of a Formal Young Woman (1958), The Fullness of Life (1960), The Force of Things (1963), A Very Sweet Death (1964), Old Age (1968), The End of Accounts (1972) and The Farewell Ceremony (1981).
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In 1977, a petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law and the decriminalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France). A number of French intellectuals – including such prominent names as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Louis Aragon, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Francis Ponge, Bernard Besret and various prominent doctors and psychologists – signed the petition. In 1979 two open letters were published in French newspapers defending individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape, in the context of abolition of age of consent laws.
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what's the explanation for all these French lads thinking they should be allowed to have sex with children. what's going on
People do not need to be useful to deserve love and respect. Life is rare and fleeting in this universe and existence itself is something to be cherished and respected. Your existence does not require validation as it was born sacred.
Life is rare and fleeting in this universe and existence itself is something to be cherished and respected
as person who has struggled with suicidal ideation a lot I sometimes think not a lot of people really truly reflect on what it means to live and be alive beyond empty platitudes and having really contemplated what it means to die I'm perpetually amazed at how indifferent people are to life as a whole
like I won't even step on insects or anything or even swat them if they're biting me because like motherfucker they're alive....look out at the fucking stars, it's cold and empty out there as far as I can tell, do you have any idea how fucking insane all this is!?
haven't been on this website in months, but i'm so depressed that i've crawled back lol. a friend of mine was killed in an accident on the first day of the new semester and i don't know what to do with myself
I said to someone today that it must be nice being able to work from home during covid. They said, "That's because I work hard."
I hate that mindset office workers have where apparently people in service jobs don't work as hard and deserve to be exposed to unsafe conditions during a pandemic. Motherfucker they work twice as hard as you and get paid a lot less.
Oh god I hope after their response to you, you said the second part to them. But I realize it probably wouldn't have been appropriate, not to mention, if you are like the most of us, you didn't think of it on the spot anyway. Doesn't matter. Fuck them for their ignorance and refusal to recognize their extreme privilege. Is there a good emoji here for :restrained-rage:?
edit: :guts-rage: not restrained, but it'll do.
They're the type of person that will just cut you off and say they don't like being political if you try to say anything like that.
my restrained rage is: :owl-pissed:
That... that's a very close approximation of just what I had in mind. If you were to give them always and only that expression from now on, that would be just as good.
Working from home with covid just means you only get one day off and are expected to puke and shit yourself between shifts for the rest of the week.
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I'm super fucking annoyed at the journal article that supposedly "debunked" Graeber's Bullshit Jobs. Like Graeber was citing research questions that were specifically asking if people thought they're job lacked meaning, and this new article takes on single question "have you a feeling of doing useful work" and extrapolates fucking everything from that one ambiguous question. It's shocking the people with actual PhDs think that this sort of analysis is acceptable. Of course the researchers are liberal NGO type people. For real, fuck the scientific community sometimes.
Babe please can we listen to something beside clips of talks given by parenti while driving around today?
People often seem to think that expressing yourself in a weird way is a sign of psychological instability. But often it means that you've found a safe/controlled way to channel stress into a break from norms. I always feel a little nervous about people who seem too normal, because I feel like they have to be either in denial about things or repressing their feelings, and either way makes them unpredictable.
The US' response to the Omicron variant is now officially: "Jesus take the wheel".
I wrote a cover letter, that sucked I hated it.
"Yes, I LOVE data entry, it's my greatest passion and I certainly have a lot of experience"
Now I'm drinking gin and pedialyte, it sucks I hate it
I wish they would cut the bullshit, but a lot of thos society is built on showing to what degree you will prostrate yourself to authority. Writing a cover letter about something clearly no human in the right mind would be passionate about demonstrates your willingness to literally erase yourself and become one with the capitist demiurge. You are going to work, and you will authentically love it. Work and the person I am will become indistinguishable. Turn brands into religions, customers into fanatics, and employees into preachers
i just wrote a bunch of jokes for my last cover letter
didnt get the job (internship)
No, actually, I don't want to make a professional resume for a job that's only paying $15 an hour. $15 is the new $7.25. A minimum wage job should just be an application wherein you fill in the basic information like name, address, contact info, education and work history, and that's it. Who writes a cover letter for a dish washing position?
Beto "I'm definitely going to win over Texans with my anti-gun platform" O'Rourke.
Fucking clown shoes bozo.
CDC recommendation is back to work 5 days after symptoms, bruh I just realized but that is like engineered to cause mass death :agony-shrooms:
That's what I mean, like motherfucker on average it takes like 2 weeks to fully recover from an illness in general, you are still hacking shit up at 5 days
you ever lie awake at night thinking about how much better things could be if wanting a second constitutional convention was a viable political opinion
I guess that’s the unspoken conservative project in a way but that would be dope if anyone left of Reagan was into it
But anyway, it’s so dogshit people celebrate the age of our fucking government system. It’s not supposed to be a point of pride that we have one of the oldest fucking constitutions around. Should’ve been mulched by the end of the civil war at the latest.
