"She has got a point, of course, and it bears fleshing out just a little. There is the danger that we’ll judge Beauvoir more harshly than we would a man given identical circumstances just because Beauvoir is a woman. To borrow some terminology from the sociology of crime, in the terms of patriarchal norms, Beauvoir is doubly deviant: she’s not only sleeping with her students, she’s a woman sleeping with her female students (so maybe, triply deviant), and women just shouldn’t do that sort of thing." In the judicial system, we usually see the opposite bias: men receiving harsher sentences than women for the same offense. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285086688_Gender_and_sentencing_A_meta-analysis_of_contemporary_research
So to me, its not plausible that Beauvoir would be judged more harshly for having committed a crime.
Try hard to be an honest, communicative, thoughtful and available adult and left and right sexy young grifters will be attempting to seduce you and entangle you in vicious emotional blackmail. No philosophers are immune to it.
Since I have never considered Sartre to be a particularly compelling philosopher, his juvenile antics cannot undermine his reputation with me. I don't find Beauvoir's work interesting, either, but I did enjoy the three-part series. It will provide me with entertaining digressive material when I go over existentialism and feminism next semester.
These relationships took place around 10 years before the Second Sex appeared. From reading Kirkpatrick's book, I get the impresson that Beauvoir did not see herself as a feminist before she wrote the Second Sex, that she discovered her feminism in writing the book.
"She has got a point, of course, and it bears fleshing out just a little. There is the danger that we’ll judge Beauvoir more harshly than we would a man given identical circumstances just because Beauvoir is a woman. To borrow some terminology from the sociology of crime, in the terms of patriarchal norms, Beauvoir is doubly deviant: she’s not only sleeping with her students, she’s a woman sleeping with her female students (so maybe, triply deviant), and women just shouldn’t do that sort of thing." In the judicial system, we usually see the opposite bias: men receiving harsher sentences than women for the same offense. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285086688_Gender_and_sentencing_A_meta-analysis_of_contemporary_research
So to me, its not plausible that Beauvoir would be judged more harshly for having committed a crime.
Try hard to be an honest, communicative, thoughtful and available adult and left and right sexy young grifters will be attempting to seduce you and entangle you in vicious emotional blackmail. No philosophers are immune to it.
Since I have never considered Sartre to be a particularly compelling philosopher, his juvenile antics cannot undermine his reputation with me. I don't find Beauvoir's work interesting, either, but I did enjoy the three-part series. It will provide me with entertaining digressive material when I go over existentialism and feminism next semester.
These relationships took place around 10 years before the Second Sex appeared. From reading Kirkpatrick's book, I get the impresson that Beauvoir did not see herself as a feminist before she wrote the Second Sex, that she discovered her feminism in writing the book.