“ Man, though, when he treats her like a freedom, is indignant that she is still a trap for him; while he flatters and satisfies her in her role as his prey, he gets annoyed at her claims to autonomy; whatever he does, he feels duped and she feels wronged.
The conflict will last as long as men and women do not recognize each other as peers, that is, as long as femininity is perpetuated as such ”
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation