Friday 19 March 2010

I agree with Anju’s statement of the woman trying to decide on how she wants this date to continue and result. When Sartre claims her to be in bad faith for leaving her hand where it is when the man makes and advance, to me it simply implies the woman’s indecisiveness and of how unsure she is about the situation.

Making a decision or claiming the women to be in bad faith needs to be considered and explored. From this passage, I feel that the woman is not in bad faith at all. Yes, she is struggling to decide as to how to react, however if she were to force herself to act upon his advances in a way that he expects her to this can be classed as her being in bad faith. This is because she would be behaving in way that is not genuine, while not responding to his advances I see this as her being in good faith and not living in self deception.

If the female acts upon impulse or acts without even deciding what she really would want to do (and instead acts how she thinks her date expects her to) would also seem to be morally wrong. By conducting herself in a way which she does not wish to (for example, accepting his advances as intimate even if she doesn’t feel the same way as the male does) her freedom of being herself is being restricted.

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