Book Second Sex

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Girls' spaces are about girls' safety. Trans gender takes us back to square one. 
Men dressed as women can enter these spaces and violate them. 

Original French Title: Le Deuxieme Sexe

English Translation: The Second Sex

Author: Simone de Beauvoir

America determines how we think, eat, sing, vaccinate, dress and what two people do in bed. That’s why this book might be banned in schools, because this French author maintains that men regard themselves as the ideal. Women are just a lesser copy of that ideal.

The Second Sex? That is heresy in America because what was done in bedrooms is now official policy, that there is nothing like male and female. It is so elastic, trans gender says boys can become girls through the knife. Money is no problem because taxpayers fund the castration. Simone de Beauvoir is dead and gone so she cannot change the title. What happened to my copy of The Second Sex? Lost in the shuffle of changing countries and planets.

Faz, a friend introduced me to Simone de Beauvoir’s work. I’m forever indebted to her, especially during these turbulent times where there’s a push to castrate boys to ‘affirm their gender.’ The whole book is about the current question online, what is a woman? The Second Sex explores that globally, not just in France.  

I wonder what Simone de Beauvoir is saying from her grave. She wrote about how culture, religion, pregnancy and how we collect food labeled women as inferior to men. America has decided there is no such thing as male and female. We are one long LGBTQ+DHPC .... alphabet. 

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

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