Book · 1949
the second sex
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It all goes back to Simone debir who's a Marxist writing in the postwar period I guess it was what was like the 40s her book came out the second sex.
Michael Shellenberger · The Tucker Carlson Show · Jan 2025 Listen at 1:17:31 The best things said about it
Algren wrote The Man with the Golden Arm. It's a great novel about a heroin addict named Frankie Machine. Frank Sinatra played him in the film. And Algren encouraged his one-time lover, Simone de Beauvoir, to write The Second Sex, which became one of the Bibles of the feminist movement.
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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is a foundational feminist philosophical treatise that examines the historical and social construction of womanhood. Michael Shellenberger referenced the text on The Tucker Carlson Show to trace the intellectual lineage of applying Marxist frameworks to gender relations, noting its emergence as a postwar work during the late nineteen-forties. On an episode of Behind the Bastards, Mia Wong brought up Beauvoir's writings while discussing early feminist perspectives that framed gender primarily as a social process rather than an immutable biological destiny. Additionally, Thomas Dijia appeared on Freakonomics Radio to discuss the origins of the book, recounting how the author Nelson Algren encouraged his former partner Simone de Beauvoir to write the treatise, which subsequently evolved into one of the core foundational texts of the modern feminist movement. Across these different podcast discussions, speakers consistently highlight the profound and lasting impact of Beauvoir's philosophical analysis on contemporary gender theory, societal structures, and the broader intellectual history of twentieth-century political and feminist thought.
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Mia Wong And like like this is and this is something like you know if you go back to like Simone Bvoir God I I hate… 1
“And like like this is and this is something like you know if you go back to like Simone Bvoir God I I hate French. It's really a truly it's a truly terrible language. I that is the official stance of this podcast. Anti-French action. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but like you know I mean always has been you you you”
Michael Shellenberger It all goes back to Simone debir who's a Marxist writing in the postwar period I guess it was what was like… 1
“It all goes back to Simone debir who's a Marxist writing in the postwar period I guess it was what was like the 40s her book came out the second sex”
Thomas Dijia Algren wrote The Man with the Golden Arm. It's a great novel about a heroin addict named Frankie Machine. F… 1
“Algren wrote The Man with the Golden Arm. It's a great novel about a heroin addict named Frankie Machine. Frank Sinatra played him in the film. And Algren encouraged his one-time lover, Simone de Beauvoir, to write The Second Sex, which became one of the Bibles of the feminist movement.”
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“and I was trying to think you know like a book like the second sex I think in a way even though it's much larger MH it's in a way more readable”