First views on reading the chapter on " Conducts of Bad Faith"

The text seems to presume that the man has rather base intentions, which surely portrays men as sexual predators - surely doing a disservice to men in general. It could be possible that the man on the date truly does admire the woman and compliments her without an ulterior motive in mind? Some how I think for Sartre this is not apparantly so!



It is presumed that the woman is to understand the man's intention towards her, to expect them even though his actions do not betray him in the mode of being in itself. There also appears to be a contradiction here as Sartre while insisting on the limitless possibilities that freedom confers on a human being - it seems as if the woman is required or set up to expect only one intention.



Maybe her not responding immediately to his advances could be her trying to decide, perhaps she does have the answer within her to do what she wants to but you cannot fault the woman for attempting to work through her indecision to find it. Even if the woman does desire the man doesnt neccessarily mean its enough to respond favourably to his advances as this choice must be based on more than physical desire in order to be valid.



Sartre's notion of the ideal first date sitution seems to be that the woman should accept only if she intends to sleep with the man. Surely this notion weakens all personal relationships between people to a hasty evaluation of the other person as simply the objective use that they can provide. What about the being of consciousness of the people in this example, surely that should be accounted for and not disregarded for us to come to a better understanding of what is really going on in this situation rather than just going on Sartre's assumptions alone.