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I need more time to read this, it's a big book, and Simone de Beauvoir has a lot to say. While it's not necessarily the easiest read and a read that you would pick up outside of a class, I do find it worthwhile. Each author that chose to write about sexism, feminism, and whatnot, has powerful things to say. Yet each of them can learn more, and understand more about it. They can each benefit from one another. I appreciate what she had to say, I don't necessarily agree or understand everything she wrote, but I still find what she wrote to be powerful and important.
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i read this two times and in both of them i was a mess. i cried of sadness and anger, i burst into tears because i could identify myself and the women around me, i could see the society we live in with a new perspective and it was not all colored rose. 
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Es un libro fenomenal, sobre todo para entender de dónde vienen muchas partes del feminismo en estos días. Sin embargo, pienso que ya queda muy fuera de su época, ya es anticuado y no aplica a la vida de hoy en día. Tristemente todavía hay cosas que si aplican, tales como las mujeres somos percibida, educadas y tratadas como "lo otro".
Me dió mucho trabajo leer pues ensayos académicos como este siempre han sido un reto para mí.

Simone postula aquí que lo que la sociedad percibe como "mujer" es realmente características feminas atribuidas por la misma sociedad, que una mujer no nace como las vemos, sino que la sociedad la crea. Vemos que realmente la frase de "una mujer no nace, se hace" es realmente trágica y terrible.

Aún sigo en la travesía de definir para mi misma ¿que me hace mujer? Pienso que me acerco mas a un concepto de que no es una sola cosa por sí misma, sino todo conjunto: los ciclos menstruales, la endometriosis, las expectativas de sociedad, su reglas y su trato. Es todo junto. Usar faldas y maquillaje no tiene nada que ver con ser mujer. Es la lucha por sobrevivir en el patriarcado lo que me define como mujer, los aspecto biológicos, sociales y psicológicos que todo eso conlleva.

Thank you for this madam de Beauvoir across the gap of generations

This book put into words my experiences and frustrations as a woman, clearly explained the feminine situation and offered the most reliable way for us to move forward in the future.

I find it was exactly the right time in my life for me to read this book.
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Jeg ved godt, at det her er et feministisk hovedværk, og jeg har MEGET stor respekt for den indflydelse, Det Andet Køn, har haft på vores tanker om kvinder og køn, MEN ...

Som bog og formidling af ideer er det her simpelthen noget rod! Alt for store dele af den består af én lang - FOR lang - ufokuseret rablen, der er proppet med påstande, som sjældent er underbygget af noget som helst (fx vil jeg gerne have en kildehenvisning eller to på de her: "That is why so many children are afraid of growing up; they desperately want their parents to continue taking them on their laps, taking them into their bed," og "Many young virgins are kleptomaniacs").

Én ting er, at rablerierne mildest talt er fodslæbende at komme igennem som læser, en anden ting er, at fodslæberiet drukner stærke pointer som de her: "...it is not women’s inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority,” og "if one encourages a child to be lazy by entertaining him all day, without giving him the occasion to study, without showing him its value, no one will say when he reaches the age of man that he chose to be incapable and ignorant; this is how the woman is raised."

Første bind er mest håbløst. I andet bind sporer jeg rent faktisk et fokus og en rød tråd - i hvert fald i 75 % af teksten. Men dét forhindrer mig ikke i gentagne gange undervejs at hyle: "Undskyld, men er der en redaktør til stede?!"

Tre stjerner. For indflydelsen, forstås - ikke for håndværket #herrejemini

Some outdated language and concepts, however it is a wonderful marxist analysis of gender and society. Even today, this book is relatable in almost every aspect. Simone de Beauvoir acts as a prophet to feminists everywhere, particularly of the marxist sort.