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A comment on Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers. Parent comment

Re:Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers by brmgb on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:24AM (#24867904)
De Beauvoir is a controversial figure. She undoubtedly had a major influence on feminism but it is also firmly established that she abused her position as a teacher and a famous writer to groom some of her teenage students into sexual relationships with her before tossing them to her boyfriend.
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Re:Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers by croissants on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:03AM (#24869029)
Geez, I knew that France has had a...different relationship with age of consent laws, but I didn't know so many of their "great thinkers" were against the idea completely [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...

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Re:Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers by burntoutfire on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:39AM (#24869316)
She's also controversial (to say the least) for her smear campaign against Albert Camus, who didn't publicly endorse hers and her boyfriend Sartre's pro-Soviet politics.
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