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Put a finger down

if you think male and female employees

doing the same job

should get equal payment.

Put a finger down

if you think people should have equal rights

regardless of their gender identity!

Put a finger down

if you think access to healthcare

should be accessible to everyone,

no matter what their gender, or race is.

Put a finger down

if you think there should be more education

about gender equality at schools.

It’s March 8,

international women’s day.

Commemoration of this day ranges

from being a public holiday in some countries

to being totally ignored elsewhere.

In some places, it is a day of protest;

in others, it is a day that celebrates womanhood.

Well, I decided to use this opportunity

to make a video about my favorite

inspirational feminist woman!

At the age of 21 Simone De Beauvoir

became the youngest person

to take the philosophy exams

at France’s most esteemed university.

And then as soon as she mastered

at rules of philosophy,

she wanted to break them.

She’d been schooled on Plato’s Theory of Forms,

which dismissed the physical world

as a flawed reflection of unchanging ideas.

But for De Beauvoir

earthly life was enthralling,

sensual, and nothing but static.

Her desire to explore the physical world

to its fullest shaped her life

and inspired a new radical philosophy.

This existentialist and feminist philosopher

wrote The Second Sex to

investigate popular definitions of femininity.

She said that those definitions

had been used to suppress women

throughout history.

She argued that women have historically

been treated as inferior to men for 3 reasons:

1- To fulfill male needs

and therefore exist in relation to men.

two

To follow external cues to seek validation

of their worth.

And her third point was that females

have historically had far fewer legal rights,

and therefore less public influence.

She uses a comparison, saying that

a girl is treated like a living doll.

She means that a doll

is a powerful meaning of identification.

So through it,

the girl learns to identify with a condition

of being dressed up and pretty.

A girl learns to objectify herself

just as men objectify women.

The doll is submissive,

its role is to be dressed up,

listen to its owner’s secrets,

comfort her when she’s lonely

and lie at home when she’s at school.

De Beauvoir argues that when a girl grows up

she finds herself in a similar situation.

As a woman,

it will be her role

to attract a husband with her beauty,

and quietly listen to his problems

and wait at home for him while he’s at work.

De Beauvoir stated that

even if a woman didn’t marry,

she would still be held to men standards

through external pressures

such as the beauty, diet,

and fashion industries.

Put a finger down if you think

all kinds of discrimination

and violence against women

should end.

One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.

Well, thanks for joining me today!

What do you think about the concept of femininity?

Let me know in the comments.