Aristotle Was An Ass**** - Misogyny in the Ancient World - Ep. 1

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A new series exploring the often overlooked, elided or trivialized misogyny of the founders of Western patriarchy. In the first episode, we set the tone for future discussion by introducing Aristotle's writings on women.

Let's just say... he wasn't a feminist.

Aristotle was, in many ways, the father of Western science and logic. He shaped the approach to serious inquiry of our world and its workings from the time of Ancient Greece and Rome, to Early Christendom, Islam and Medieval Judaism, through The Enlightenment and all the way to our modern world. The echo of his ideas can still be heard loudly today. His analyses of the subjects from politics to poetry are the base of many of our contemporary constructions of those issues.

So too his views on women.

Some will say that we've done away with his shameful and offensive views in our modern culture, but it's clear that, like a plague, his disdain and degradation of women still infect us. We'll share some of those views as well as discuss the world that shaped him.

Join Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden as they launch this bold new series.