Thursday, September 28, 2006

Aristotle, wow

Aristotle just lays this out there in "Poetics":
Such goodness is possible in every type of personage, even in a woman or a slave, though one is perhaps an inferior, and the other a wholly worthless being... The Character before us may be, say, manly; but it is not appropriate in a female Character to be manly, or clever.


Dang... he'd better watch his grave, I know some women who would not take kindly to such talk.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

too bad i've been told i'm occasionally both...but when do i ever concern myself with what is appropriate or not?

i can't remember if i've commented before, but i do occasionally stop by. hope that's ok. :)