Hellooooo GFPs! And a special birthday hello to Invisible Women's unofficial patron saint: Simone de Beauvoir, whose birthday was yesterday. I opened Invisible Women with an epigraph from her masterpiece, The Second Sex...Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. -- Simone de Beauvoir...partly because it's perfect -- I mean LOOK AT IT it could not be more perfect -- but also to illustrate my immense debt to de Beauvoir. Her groundbreaking analysis of women as the relative Other to man's Absolute Subject provided the philosophical underpinning to my own work and without her there is no Invisible Women.So Happy Birthday, Simone, and thank you for helping us see through the bullshit ✊