PHIL 259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bourgeoisie, Penis Envy, Pewter
30 Jan 2018
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Men enter in a love relationship with projection of the woman they want to live with, as oppose to the person itself. Women are most likely to enter the relationship with the person as such, no need to idealize the man another way. B/c women are inferior, therefore they are not appropriate targets for mutual love and mutual respect. Firestone: they need to pretend that the women they"ve chose is worthy of love so men need to pretend they are special; men have this need to defend themselves. The centrality of love to life: how women take love to be men. Firestone: with women as lacking power, women need to acknowledge the of choosing women (the lower caste(cid:524), such as they are (cid:498)special(cid:499) Norm to think that love is the (cid:498)most important(cid:499) thing to women, not so much to power difference; (cid:498)penis envy(cid:499) is an obvious denial of the power imbalance, as it.
