Simone de Beauvoir
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Sep 12, 2026
Abby KluchinHOST
But often stipulating that a consciousness-raising group involves, at least in, like, the '70s, women getting together and talking about their experience qua women, realizing that experiences that they have had that they thought were about themselves, that were individual, were actually about gender, right? And were actually about this category, inhabiting this category of woman.
Abby KluchinHOST
I don't think, and, you know, this is not an original thought, this is straight out of, uh, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, I don't think that masculinity and femininity or the category of men and the category of women, I don't think they function in the same way.
Robin DembroffGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Abby KluchinHOST
Um, and so I guess I feel like in so many homosocial settings, women are the ones that are harmed when, when men kind of, um, form these bonds.
JessicaGUEST
It created the two income trap, which even I believe Elizabeth Warren wrote a book about how it's a trap for both parents to start working and have tremendous jobs.
JessicaGUEST
college debt before they have children because then they could never have the option of staying home with their children and it was I believe Simone de Beauvoir or maybe it was Gloria Steinem I might be mixing them up who said that women shouldn't be able to stay home because if they had that choice then everybody would take it
LeslieGUEST
okay
JessicaGUEST
okay I
E. Michael JonesGUEST
And so there's a sense in which, OK, now you've got to join the big world.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
The big world now is Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
They're the people that everybody talks about when you're in Paris in 1961.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
And she was completely incapable.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
I'm dealing with these ideas.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
If you think wine is intoxicating, try John Paul Sartre as Simone de Beauvoir.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
She got swept away.
E. Michael JonesGUEST
She became a feminist.
Michael KovnatHOST
She's also a former editor-in-chief of the American Philosophical Association's blog.
Michael KovnatHOST
Her 2022 book is How to Be Authentic, Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment.
Michael KovnatHOST
She'll join us with some of her big ideas in just a moment.
Michael KovnatHOST
Then in the second half of the show, we'll get life advice from the 18th century Scotsman David Hume via philosopher and journalist Julian Baggini.
Michael KovnatHOST
Julian will share ideas from his 2021 book, The Great Guide, what David Hume can teach us about being human and living well, how philosophy can help us become more fully human right after these ads.
Skye ClearyGUEST
Hello, I'm Skye Cleary.
Skye ClearyGUEST
I'm the author of How to Be Authentic, Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment.
Skye ClearyGUEST
Simone de Beauvoir was a brilliant 20th century French philosopher, novelist and activist.
Hannah MacDonaldHOST
So I'd really recommend, you know, if people haven't come across them, which [laughs] I would be surprised if they haven't, but to really seek out, you know, the books they're publishing, 'cause there's so many amazing ones there.
Hannah MacDonaldHOST
Now, I want to get more into, uh, your new book, The Reburn Affair, um, and I wanna start by asking about your epigraph, which is a quote from Simone de Beauvoir and it reads, "I've shown women as they are, as divided human beings, and not as they ought to be." Could you tell us about choosing this epigraph and-
Laurie PetrouGUEST
Mm
Hannah MacDonaldHOST
... and how it's in conversation with your novel?
Laurie PetrouGUEST
No, really.
Laurie PetrouGUEST
Buckle up.
Laurie PetrouGUEST
I mean, I, I studied Simone de Beauvoir for my doctorate in great detail.
Hannah MacDonaldHOST
Yes.
Peter MillsHOST
Because ultimately, can we ever know what is necessary for the thing to be what we need it to be? Like this question of, should it be in or should it not be in? Again, it goes a little bit to this meaningfulness question.
Peter MillsHOST
Isn't that the answer to that question? ambiguous like Simone de Beauvoir would say this is from last time like how can we know or how can we live like we know and at the same time know that we perhaps don't know because that allows us to to act with integrity so to speak yeah yeah It doesn't, it seems very hard.
Peter MillsHOST
Like it's like an impossible challenge.
Peter MillsHOST
I've lost your sound completely.
Michael KnowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This, this goes back to the '70s.
Michael KnowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, there was a very famous debate between Simone de Beauvoir, one of the leading leftist feminists, and Betty Friedan, who was another leftist feminist.
Rachel Campos-DuffySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm-hmm.
Michael KnowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Simone de Beauvoir said mothers should not be allowed to stay home to raise their kids.
Michael KnowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And even Betty Friedan, she said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Michael KnowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They should be allowed to.
Michael KnowlesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Maybe we shouldn't encourage it." And Simone de Beauvoir said, "No, feminism cannot succeed if women-
The Cajun KnightHOST
Hmm.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
She wrote or edited more than 20 books, was editor of Ms.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
Magazine, and worked closely with Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, even Simone de Beauvoir, to create lasting feminist foundations, and she was just a lovely, warm person.
Dan BarkerHOST
Well, and she complimented you a lot, Annie Laurie, for your work with your books on feminism.
Dan BarkerHOST
If you want to find out more about Robin and her relationship with FFRF, you can read Annie Laurie's blog.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
She wrote or edited more than 20 books, was editor of Ms.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
Magazine, and worked closely with Gloria Steinem Jane Fonda, even Simone de Beauvoir, to create lasting feminist foundations.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
And she was just a lovely, warm person.
Dan BarkerHOST
Well, and she complimented you a lot, Annie Laurie, for your work with your books on feminism.
Seth GruberGUEST
I'll give you another example.
Seth GruberGUEST
Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminist, you know, armpit hair kind of lady.
Seth GruberGUEST
One of the most profound second wave feminists in terms of the perversion of American culture and creating other revolutionaries because dominion and discipleship is inevitable.
Seth GruberGUEST
Like Shulamith Firestone was very influenced by Simone de Beauvoir.
Seth GruberGUEST
Firestone was the feminist who said like the end goal of the feminist revolution is actually the obliteration of genital differences between humans.
Seth GruberGUEST
human beings um and uh and she was also influenced by herbert marcus the the sex pervert and father of the free love movement in california and and a member of the frankfurt school who said that the way back into the garden is to take another bite of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so anyway so so she's in she does this famous debate brian uh in the 60s um with betty friedan And they're disagreeing with one another because the revolution always eats its own.
Seth GruberGUEST
Women should be able to decide and we shouldn't like attack women if they want to be mothers.
Seth GruberGUEST
And Brian, this is like one of the most famous moments in feminist history.
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