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Women’s Oppression Compared to Others
- Simone de Beauvoir compares women's oppression to other forms like slavery and caste but shows men and women are different from typical oppressor-oppressed dynamics.
- Men and women are a demographic balance, denying women a collective political identity unlike other oppressed groups.
Unique Demographic Equality
- The oppression of women is unique because it is not the oppression of a minority or a narrow elite but a demographic parity between men and women.
- Women do not have a political class identity as oppressed groups often do, making emancipation more complex.
Inescapable Gender Identities
- Men cannot opt out of being men and women cannot abolish men as a category, making gender oppression more enduring than other oppressions.
- This differentiates gender oppression from those where class or roles might be more fluid or abolishable.