Simone's Women....

After reading Simone do Beauvior and Virginia Woolf I’ve picked out a quote from each that I believe best sums up what they are trying to say.
In Beauviors, The Second Sex, I found a quote on the first page that says, “ Thus, as against the dispersed, contingent, and multiple existences of actual woman, mythical thought opposes the Eternal Feminine, unique and changeless. If the definition provided for this concept is contradicted by the behavior of flesh-and-blood women, it is latter who are wrong: we are told not that Femininity is a false entity, but that the women concerned are not feminine.” I feel that Beauvior is trying to say that women are not meant to change they are meant to stay young and flawless forever. If a women does age and start to actually look old, than she is not considered a women anymore. This quote is perfect for describe today’s society. There is an enormous amount of pressure on women today to stay looking young. Many women are either constantly on a diet, just don’t eat, or ‘go under the knife.’ Beauvior doesn’t agree with this quote he says, “Men need not to bother themselves with alleviating the pains and the burdens that physiologically are women’s lot, since these are ‘intended by Nature’;” He believes that men should forget about the perfect women, let them be are they are. Men don’t have to live up to these standards, so women should get a little bit of a break. I feel that this is related to literature because everything in today’s society seems to have to do with sex, and how women are suppose to be beautiful. But since this wasn’t written in the present day I feel that Simone was trying to show the difference between men and women, and how they were overlooked when it came to brains and actually just doing something, but they were to maintain a beautiful appreance. After I read this I though of Shakespeare and how men played the roles of women in the plays. That just proves that a women isn’t even good enough to play herself, men just seem to do it better.