Status Updates From El segundo sexo

“It is understandable why (from this perspective), women objects to masculine logic. Not only does it have no bearing on her experience, but she also knows that in men’s hands, reason becomes an insidious form of violence.”

Here comes the brick

“There is also the temptation to forego liberty and become a thing. This is an inauspicious road, for he who takes it — passive, lost, ruined — becomes henceforth the creature of another’s will… But it is an easy road; on it one avoids the strain involved in undertaking an authentic existence.”