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The introductory paragraph makes it seem like the extent of your claim is he noticed the same behavioral trend as most psychology surveys:

> Among women's differences from men were that they were, in his view, more impulsive, more compassionate, more complaining, and more deceptive. He gave the same weight to women's happiness as to men's, and in his Rhetoric stated that society could not be happy unless women were happy too.

And the modern psychology:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161011-do-men-and-women...

I think you’re really stretching the word “misogyny” when you’re using it for people who accurately describe reality and view male and female well-being as equally important for society.


You are a misogynist. This is literally the first sentence. Your post is shamefully misleading.

> Aristotle saw women as subject to men, but as higher than slaves, and lacking authority; he believed the husband should exert political rule over the wife.


Yawn — you name calling because you think a cherry picked quote about family dynamics defines an entire philosopher’s view is the bad faith I’ve come to expect from people of your persuasion.

Your post is more misleading than mine: you’re hanging your entire opinion on a de-contextualized cherry-picked line and using that to ignore other parts of the philosopher’s work.

Go on, scream about how everyone who disagrees with you is an istaphobe — nobody cares.


You are incapable of recognizing misogyny, and see it as an all or nothing quality. You need to think more deeply.


Wasn’t he the guy who said that woman had a different number of teeth than men but never bothered to check?




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