Comparing The Condition Of Slavery To Women's Conditions In Society

One of the first philosophers I saw actually address race was Simone de Beauvoir. Often I noticed that she would compare the condition of slavery to women’s conditions in society, which is a pretty accurate comparison for a number of reasons. “but women are not a minority, like the American Negroes or the Jews; there are as many women as men on earth” (p 20) Although women were not minorities, I myself believe that the treatment of female slaves especially and the hate against Jews slowly but surely spilled into the way that non slave women or Jews were treated. When a male feels that much power over woman, he eventually is going to want more power over more women, even a white one. A sense of entitlement to that power brewed more and more