>>20285455384–322 BC: Aristotle
>"Woman may be said to be an inferior man."—Poetics, XV
>"Females are weaker and colder in nature, and we must look upon the female character as being a sort of natural deficiency." —On the Generation of Animals
>"For the male is more fitted to rule than the female, unless conditions are quite contrary to nature; and the elder and fully grown is more fitted than the younger and undeveloped." —Arist., Politica, trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XII, 1259b1.
>"It is true that in most cases of rule by statesmen there is an interchange of the role of ruler and rules, which aims to preserve natural equality and non-differentiation; nevertheless, so long as one is ruling and the other is being ruled, the ruler seeks to mark distinctions in outward dignitity, in style of address, and in honours paid. [...] As between man and woman this relationship is permanent." —Arist., Politica, trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XII, 1259b2-3.
>"Thus the deliberative faculty of the soul is not present at all in a slave; in a female it is present but ineffective, in a child present but undeveloped."—Arist., Politica, trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XIII, 1260a13.
>"So it is evident that each of the classes spoken of must have moral virtue, and that restraint is not the same in a man as in a woman, nor justice or courage either, as Socrates thought; the one is the courage of a ruler, the other a courage of a servant, and likewise with the other virtues."—Arist., Politica, trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XIII, 1260a17.
>"For example, the poet [Sophocles] singles out 'silence' as 'bringing credit to a woman'; but that is not so for a man."—Arist., Politica, trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, I, XIII, 1260a28.
