What is the deep meaning of simone de beauvoir's The Second Sex?
Beauvoir analyzed women from biology, psychology, religion, mythology, literature and history, and drew a sobering conclusion: women were not born as women, but were turned into women. Clearly put forward the feminist point of view. In Chapter 2 1 Women's Situation and Characteristics, Beauvoir elaborated the following views in beautiful words: "If a woman is secular, mediocre and basically utilitarian, it is because she is forced to devote her life to cooking and washing diapers-she can't get a sense of loftiness! It is her duty to live a monotonous and repetitive life and be in an unconscious reality. Natural women have to repeat themselves, without a fresh start, and feel that time seems to turn aimlessly. She is very busy, but she never finishes anything, so she is content with what she has. This dependence on things is the result of men's dependence on her, which also explains her meanness and greed. Her life has no purpose: her heart is devoted to giving birth or taking care of things like food, clothing, housing and transportation, which is just a means. These things are the second intermediary between animal life and free survival. The only value related to secondary means is practicality, and housewives live on this practical level. She doesn't expect herself to be more than just a useful person to her family. However, no survivor can be satisfied with a secondary role, because in that case, the means will immediately become an end (for example, we can see this in politicians) and the value of the means will become absolute value. Therefore, practicality transcends truth, beauty and freedom and rules the housewife's paradise. It is from this prospect that she looks forward to the whole world. Because of this, she adopted Aristotle's golden mean, that is, mediocre morality. How can people expect her to be bold, enthusiastic, selfless and noble? These qualities will only appear when free people bravely cross the open future and go far beyond all established realities. A woman is locked in a kitchen or a boudoir, but people are surprised at her narrow vision. Her wings have been cut off, but people are lamenting that she will not fly and let the future open to her, so that she will not be forced to linger in the present. "