Prompt 2

Prompt 2

                Aristotle’s view on women I believe is absolutely wrong. He believes that we are merely unfinished copies of a man. How could that be so when we can do everything the same as them? Women may never be able to be physically as strong or do certain things a man can do, but our minds are nothing different. We can have the same thinking ethic as them and work ethic. Plenty women work just as hard as or harder than a man. He looked down upon us because he believed we are just a part of the process of the reproduction of a human life. No, we are not only that.

            Being a person in general is the way you put your mind into your life. It does not matter whether you are a man or a woman. The way somebody works at something determines their pursuit of getting it finished and wanting to complete it. There are not only successful men, there are lazy unsuccessful ones also, and same with women. If you want to be a hard worker and become successful, you can put your mind to it and it would have absolutely nothing to do with being a man or a women. I feel as if he is trying to say that the only thing women are good for is reproduction, but we are not. Women today work and take care of children and are expected to keep things around the house orderly, where as men are only expected to make the stronger income and help around here and there. In the current society we also have single parent families which mean only one parent, usually a mother. There are plenty of successful single parent women out in the world and many thrive. But there are plenty that are not. It just goes back to the real idea of whether you put your mind to things and try is whether or not you become successful. This philosopher is saying women cannot live without a man but the real question should be could a man live without a woman?       

            The reason every person referred to is a man all goes back to Aristotle’s theory that man is better than a woman. The medieval time period favored his theory over Plato’s positive views on them and how we are all equal. Men were the only ones throughout that time that had any say in the world and how their lives should be and women had nothing to do with it. Men’s thoughts and beliefs were definitely favored over women’s thoughts. The women were simply there to do the dirty work and reproduce. Which is not right at all, yet only changed less than a hundred years ago.