Daughters of Beauvoir

Word Count:  249

Parker Greene

"so my connections to the outside world became through him" (36:10)

This quote really speaks for itself but I love the volume that this speaks, using just a simple statement while being able to be so thought provoking for women of this time. Simone de Beauvoir was really influential in her writing and advocating for women to start thinking more about changing gender norms. Beauvoir's influence on women during that time and years later has helped change how women think for themselves. Women reading this book for the first time and seeing this quote, must have brought forward many thought provoked women wanting to change the way things are. Most women were stay at home mothers during the time that Beauvoir's work came about, and after women started to read The Other Sex they started to want to become more educated which led to more women going to college to pursue studies in women. 

This quote is relatable to everyone that had to live through Covid-19, but in a different manner. The relation to this quote is quite different, yet still has a huge message with it, with Covid everyone was trapped inside their homes and all of our information came from the news. Which in this case our outside connections were only really coming from the mainstream news and other media sources. The media was controlling what we saw, much how the man of the house was controlling his wife with her actions and interactions.