In the beginning I read this quote and thought it was
interesting,”Dorothy Parker has written: ‘I cannot be just to books
which treat of woman as woman ... My idea is that all of us, men as well
as women, should be regarded as human beings’”.Why does it matter? Then
I remember, we should be proud and accepting of our differences however
popularity is a group and human beings strive to be in a community and
within that community we lose a sense of uniqueness.   Later in the text
the notion of the “other” or “outsider” is discussed which I find
interesting to define in terms because our ideas are already shaped
before we have them. 
The title of this piece bothers me since it is called “The Second Sex”
and is discussing  how to define a woman.  Why are women defined as
second to men?  What approach is the author using? Is it the biblical
reference that woman was created from mans rib or is it because
currently the world is patriarchal in the majority of societies?  It
starts off assuming that there is an “original” sex.  This relates to
some of the following text and Aristotle’s quote which I am dismissing
as medieval and naive thinking of the “man”.  I like how at the end it
notes that we must reject all notions of describing men and women as
“equal”,” infererior” or superior”. I also enjoy how it delves into each
of these theories. 
And finally, I knoooow we were only supposed to pick two quotes but I
couldn’t help myself. I just want to stick this one in there as well;
“But it is doubtless impossible to approach any human problem with a
mind free from bias. The way in which questions are put, the points of
view assumed, presuppose a relativity of interest; all characteristics
imply values, and every objective description, so called, implies an
ethical background”. This also relates to a prior point of how our ideas
are predisposed. 
This article is very interesting and brings up several pertinent issues.
 As for pop culture references…. I think this could be applied to any
reference but I really like whoever brought up the women bodybuilders. 
 Well, and I couldn’t help thinking of Hilary Clinton and some of the
accusations of her being “manly”.