Simone de Beauvoir writes that women are “the Other”. The Other is identified as a conceptualization of what is defined as different from oneself. It refers to what is different from the first concept and is identified by its difference. It has no original definition in itself, it is defined by its difference from another original concept. Otherness creates mental limitations, stigmas, and dehumanizing thought patterns. Simone argues that this is the fate of femininity. By being a woman, you become the Other of men. Women seem to be defined solely by the difference they make to humanity. She writes that women and men are bound in a necessary partnership, but it is the partnership of a slave and a master, in which each participant is dependent on the other, and yet one of them has the power. Even the question of how to define a woman in itself gives clues that their definition is not independent of what it means to be a man and that men can be defined easily. History has shown that humanity viewed femininity as a secondary evolution of man and viewed humanity as a male origin. The duality between self and other seems to be a natural propensity for navigating the world, and genders are no exception. She describes it as a fundamental category of human thought and continues that it is a fundamental hostility towards the consciousness of the Other. Racism and income differences between classes can both be explained using this theory. Even though the relationship between the sexes seems to be reciprocal, it took so long for the revelations about gender equality to emerge. Compared to racial or religious groups, Beauvoir argues that women have a harder time organizing as a group against inequality, because middle of paper...... there is an inherent power shift that benefits the capitalists. by the suffering of others. Capitalists need to exploit and maintain power and money, and make workers believe that they are being treated fairly in an economic exchange for their services. Marx believed this because he could observe the obvious power difference between those who owned businesses and those who worked for them. He saw a big difference between the rich and the poor, which seemed to suggest that capitalists were exploiting the sensitive position of the less fortunate within their class. Average people can't survive without selling their labor to the more fortunate and don't have as much power. I believe Marx is right and it seems that to this day, people who are in a position of less social power will be exploited for their ability to give power to others for little in return..