Teen Abstinence

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Women were inferior beings; even the philosophers, as great as their minds were, were unable to shake these feelings. Socrates says in the Republic that women should share in all the roles in society, not because they are equal to men, but because they are inferior in every single way, so that there is in fact no role where they would be better suited, thus all roles should be open to them. Aristotle says in his Poetics that virtue can be attributed to women and slaves "even though the one is an inferior, and the other a wholly worthless being." This sadly misogynistic attitude permeated nearly the whole of classical pagan society; as inked has been saying, the Church's view and treatment of women was far better than that of the ancient pagans.