The Secondary Sex

In "The Second Sex" women are either seen as obsticales to men of object of their lustful desires. In men a man's world woman are secondary creatures and at times we are not even that. As Simone de Beauvoir says we are seen as " Others". She even refers to how women are seen as living their lives through the dreams of men. For example greek myths that men imagined up. Men as the virile creatures, like Zeus that run everything and woman even in these stories are secondary charachters just as in life. Since men are contradictory creatures and they dream both "a life and to repose", and intern woman manifest as men's contradictory dreams.