Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
gadfly the wise wrote:
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Wrong. Socrates never wrote anything down.
And while it is possible to extract some of Socrates' philosophy from Plato's, I don't think there is anything in the Platonic corpus that would say women are BETTER.
Here's some Plato: (Republic, 445c)
Do you know, then, of anything practised by mankind in which the masculine sex does not surpass the female on all these points?1 Must we make a long story of it by discussing basket weaving, and the cooking of cakes, and the boiling of vegetables?