Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" raises an interesting theory that men want everything from women. They expect you to serve and enchant, but they also want you to be everything else to them, they want you provide a sense of themselves for them. Maybe in earlier times when women were greatly oppressed did this theory hold more weight, but in modern society I do not believe that this is wholly true because what the author believes about men is also true of women. In a relationship like marriage you do expect a variety of ideals from eachother. I realize that most women and men are playing out their roles that society expects, but I also believe that nowadays women and men expect the same from eachother and exist along side one another.
I also enjoyed reading about the myths about women in different societies, although they seemed quite absurd.
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