In her introductory lines to The Second Sex, De Beauvoir says: “We wonder if women still exist, if they will always exist, if it is desirable or not that they exist. , what place they occupy in this world, what their place should be. (Salomon, page 296) De Beauvoir argues that woman should not be a biological category, but rather an existential category, which I agree with. De Beauvoir's main thesis is that men oppress women by characterizing them as the Other, defined in opposition to men. Man is essential, absolute and transcendent, while woman is inessential and incomplete. In this article, I will summarize De Beauvoir's view of femininity and her proposal for what femininity should ideally be. I will also recognize plausible objections to this claim and attempt to answer them from the existentialist perspective. De Beauvoir begins with a main question: “What is a woman?” (Solomon page 296) Women represent half the population, but what makes this half “woman”? Our first thought would be a biological definition: a woman is someone who has a uterus. However, that would be the definition of a woman, not a woman. De Beauvoir writes that “experts” do not believe that all humans with a uterus are women. (Solomon page 296) This shows that not every female human being is a woman. De Beauvoir analyzes the existence of a woman as an entity rather than as a biological result. She highlights the significant physical differences that exist between men and women, but asserts that these are not defining characteristics of the sexes. The biological and physical aspect does not allow us to differentiate one from the other. Beauvoir then writes that to be considered a woman "she must share this... middle of paper ...... in each group, each group displays duality. For example, when considering the black man and woman, the man is always the subject, while the woman is the object. This is true in the case of a white man and woman, or equally true of a brown man and woman. In conclusion, Beauvoir makes a convincing argument that woman is the Other. She shows why it is necessary for women to break out of this image and seek freedom and equality. Beauvoir believes that femininity is a stage of social evolution; it has not existed anywhere in human history and may disappear in the future. Beauvoir sets two preconditions for release. First, women don't need to embrace femininity if they don't want to, and second, living like men won't make them equal. Women must stop being influenced by society and must find their individual identity. Only then will they become true equals.