Beauvoir & V. in a C/c atholic Man's World

[alice wellintown]

Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> fraternity could then be born between them.
>
> Interesting choice of words, don't you think? Why mightn't sorority be
> born between them, I wonder? or community? or sympathy?

Well, "sorority" suffers from the same gendered connotations as
"fraternity", and "community" does not connote the family relations
that are "born" between or even among, and "sympathy" is not what is
meant at all. The Introduction, like the text itself, is easily
deconstructed along such absurd uses/abuses of language.

It's a girl
I'm a boy

an object / subject use I am familar with but not in the context the
author describes: labels used in hospitals. In my experience, "it's a
girl" and "it's a boy" are used, on cigars and the like to announce
the birth of a girl or a boy. Now, that cigars are handed out may
upset penis-envy-post-Freudian-uncircumsized-femenist-homosexual-males,
but you can't put everyone in your pipe when you smoke freud.