The Resume

(January 9, 1908-April 14, 1986)
Full name was Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir
Wrote 'The Second Sex,' 'All Men are Mortal,' 'The Mandarins,' 'Adieux: A Farewell to Jean-Paul Sartre'

Why she might be annoying:

She and her mother had a falling out when she became an atheist as a teenager.
'The Mandarins' was banned by the Catholic Church.
In 'The Second Sex,' she said 'A woman is not born, she is made,' thereby denying genetics and taking a rather extreme view on gender.
Towards the end of her life, she drank too much and took amphetamines.

Why she might not be annoying:

She graduated from the Sorbonne.
At twenty-one, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, and they became life long friends and lovers.
She and Jean-Paul Sartre saw no need to marry and had two rules for their relationship: They were both allowed to fall in love with or have sex with anyone else they wanted, and they were always completely honest, never withholding anything from the other.
She and Jean-Paul Sartre had at least one menage a tois with Olga Kosakiewicz.
When Jean-Paul Sartre died, she said, 'My death will not bring us together again. This is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long.'
Her writing was far more lucid than Jean-Paul Sartre's.
She won the Prix Goncourt and the Jerusalem Prize for Leaders.
She rejected the title of existentialist.
'The Second Sex' is a landmark in the feminist philosophy.
She was a social reformer who fought for the rights of women, the elderly, and factory workers, in addition to protesting France's occupation of Algeria and the Vietnam War.

Credit: Nihilism Cynicism Sarcasm Orgasm

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• I Abused Amphetamines
• I am a Citizen of France
• I am an Atheist
• I Died in 1986 (Ranked: 78)
• I Turned Down the Legion of Honor
• I'm Buried at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris
• Ladies Home Journal's 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century
• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999] (Ranked: 11)
• Life Magazine's Top 100 People of the Millennium [2000] (Ranked: 72)
• Man's World
• Nihilism Cynicism Sarcasm Orgasm's Profiles [Series 1]
• Philosophers: 20th Century [1900-2000]
• Profiles 6001-6250 (Ranked: 6134)
• Supersized Egos
• Teachers
• The My Hero Project
• Time’s 100 Women of the Year [1920-2020] (Ranked: 1949)
• Women Who had Abortions

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 27 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 22 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 33 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 42 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 47 Votes: 40.43% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 100 Votes: 59.00% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 164 Votes: 56.10% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 471 Votes: 42.25% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 378 Votes: 43.12% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 576 Votes: 48.78% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 244 Votes: 52.05% Annoying