I recently found that Spice girls, that British girl band, share some link with Beauvoir, the French philospher.
Once upon, I was quite drawn by Spice girls’ Billboard hit song — <Wannabe>.
“Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want”
Later, they raised their slogan “Girl power”, which is deemed as the legacy of this already dismissed band.
Indeed, “what do you really want?” and “Girl power” are two propositions from Simone de Beauvoir, one of the earliest feminists, “One is not born, but becomes a woman.”
As a representative of Existentialism, Beauvoir refused to be defined by convention nor by others.
We must be true to ourselves!
