Simone De Beauvoir was a French writer. While she did not consider herself a philosopher,
Beauvoir had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Her famous novel, ‘The Second Sex’ is a detailed analysis of women’s oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She was also a political activist, feminist, and a social theorist.
In the chapter, ‘Myth And Reality’, De Beauvoir reveals how patriarchal societies have imposed different kinds of “myths” to define women. The definition of women based on these false myths revokes her subjectivity, reducing women to objects.
When Simone de Beauvoir was at her peak in her career, it was World War 2nd and France under the German occupation were very harsh. Germans deprived France millions of workers, food and heavy cash payments, which has destroyed economy itself. Meanwhile, political situation was unclear, Germans controlled and dictated each step of French government, simultaneously, social atmosphere was unstable. Citizens were frightened, tired and angry because they lost their families, house, friends and normal life. Furthermore, women rights were infringed even more than it was one or two year ago.
With superb vocabulary and concise sentence structuring, Simone using clear academic style explained about ‘Myth and Reality, which in itself became phenomenal. Beauvoir wrote her radical and contemporary beliefs about women that will enable them to sabotage the stereotypes associated with their gender. The degradation of women and the inferiority of their sex were deepening the agonizing of the cult. Beauvoir wanted women to be seen as something beyond a sexual symbol; those myths that the society subjected women to, were merely used as a blame game and were far from reality. She wanted to show the society the neglected frame of the picture where women are capable to make their own choices and are guardians of their own sovereignty.
She puts some part of the experience of being woman at the times of war. As an

existentialist as well as a feminist De Beauvoir believes that social realities impede to express herself in many ways.
Beauvoir wrote her radical and contemporary beliefs about women that will enable them to sabotage the stereotypes associated with their gender. The degradation of women and the inferiority of their sex were deepening the agonizing of the cult. Beauvoir wanted women to be seen as something beyond a sexual symbol; those myths that the society subjected women to, were merely used as a blame game and were far from reality. She wanted to show the society the neglected frame of the picture where women are capable to make their own choices and are guardians of their own sovereignty.
“It should be noted that the American citizen, who profoundly baffles the average European, is not, however, considered as being “mysterious”: one states more modestly that one does not understand him. And similarly woman does not always “understand” man; but there is no such thing as a masculine mystery. The point is that rich America, and the male, are on the Master side and the Mystery belongs to the slave.”
Women- born or made? According to Beauvoir, women genetics comprised of the myth, the
‘Other’ being, the Second Sex, or the inferior sex. Women and slaves share mutual genes of the notoriety of inferiority. Women are classified as an outcast, an abnormal creation, who are frequently succumbed to transgression. Men create a mythical aura around women to justify their dominion, their Kingship, their Mastery. The myth also seems to reason their inept Kingship.
Men have occupied the ‘rue’ position and it is considered that women don’t yet find their freedom of social realities in our world. In rapidly growing world myths are created incredibly fast, for instance,
‘new form of eroticism is coming into being’. All new flows about that women should be thin, sexy etc, contradict with the destiny of woman being. It concerns me that woman should focus on the

main idea of being a mother. Therefore, the ‘second sex’ is seems to be lost in the society as these women try to be thin and pretty but they even can damage their health during diets and special
‘food’.