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Time of Her Time

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While reading "Time of Her Time" we can see that Sergius is a man who thinks that women are just a sexual object, and he thinks that they are inferior to men. During his life he had have sex with many women, but one day he met Denise who is a 19 year old girl from NYU. They both start their own sexual relationship and he describes her as a girl not to feminine instead, somehow she was a "boy". During their sexual meetings he start to get too concerned about his masculinity, because he was not able to take Denise to her orgasm, but Denise made him have an early ejaculation. At the end he finally tell us that she got her orgasm and he feels very filled after that, and he treats her like something he finally won; but he did not win anything because she tells him that he didn't do nothing he just confirmed his homosexuality.
In "From the Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir explains us how our world other women from men. Simone tells us in her article that there is no reason to other people, because we are reciprocal, she also tell us that the past stereotype of woman is no longer accepted by society because nowadays, a woman look better if she has a tan, like a man who is exposed to sun the whole day.
Also, in "time of her time" we cannot know in theory if Denise got the orgasm or not because the one who is telling the story is Sergius. We can use these two articles to make society know how othering is not right because as Denise told Sergius that he was “homosexual” she was trying to make him realize that a woman do not depend on a men to be full. That for instance she had some characteristics that made her a boy while he had the fear of losing his masculinity, that is the reason why he liked to have sex with her because it was stimulating the way she thinks. He wanted to gain Denise masculinity so in that way he could make her feel inferior and dependent on a man. While in this case, even though he made her have an orgasm she didn’t lose her power or her self-confidence, whileon ther other hand, she made him doubt about his masculinity.

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