Icons of the feminists and the left ...
... Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were perhaps the most influential couple of the 20th century.
... Their private lives were wildly experimental. Simone de Beauvoir had affairs with both men and women, while Sartre, despite his stunted stature and ugly squint, was always surrounded by adoring muses happy to pamper his genius.
... Their private lives were wildly experimental. Simone de Beauvoir had affairs with both men and women, while Sartre, despite his stunted stature and ugly squint, was always surrounded by adoring muses happy to pamper his genius.
... Simone's reaction to Sartre's faithlessness was to sleep with another of her pupils, and when Sartre retaliated by deflowering another virgin, Simone pinched her lover's 21-year-old boyfriend.
... Yet Simone had no maternal feelings for them at all. She showed no empathy even when one of them, a Jewish girl whom she seduced when she was 16, nearly lost her life at the hands of the Nazis who were advancing on Paris.
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I have to say, I have long admired Jean-Paul Sartre. His rare ability to pin-point the full range of human characters will have you glued to whatever novel of his you happen to be reading. He'll have you in stitches.
Read Nausea or The Age Of Reason. I'll tell you now: he ain't no feminist.
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