Simone de Beauvoir: On the Acceptance of Other

Beauvoir believes that women cannot exist or be thought to exist without men. Woman is considered as the incomplete other on a situation where the man is the subject and the superior. Hence she is the incomplete other. For, in such a situation, she thinks that a woman herself is responsible for the position she is in. Many women, who live in patriarchal culture, become guilty of their own acts. Thus, in some respect, she's responsible for being captive in this present condition. Since she herself prepares the ground for this captivity, she is to be blamed for that. Besides she often appears to concede to being other. In this study, we aim to analyze how a woman is constructed as the other of man and we shall discuss on the basis of Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the reasons for woman's acceptance of being other.