It's just funny to me, that earlier in the same piece he quotes a guy who's essentially saying the same thing. "Nobody’s going to pretend that ancient culture

It's just funny to me, that earlier in the same piece he quotes a guy who's essentially saying the same thing. "Nobody’s going to pretend that ancient culture in general was feminist," says Anthony Long, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California at Berkeley. "It wasn’t. So inevitably when you’re reading ancient texts and philosophy, whether it’s Aristotle or Stoicism, the male gender will tend to be emphasized and male activities will tend to be emphasized." Yeah, or, succinctly, you could say Western Civilization is the patriarchy. Or slightly less succinctly you could say Western Civilization is made of books, and dudes wrote most of the books. Partly because women weren't even allowed to learn to read & write in many cases. Patriarchy led to dude-learning which led to dude-writing which led to Western Civ being mostly made of dude-books promulgating dude-ideas a.k.a. more patriarchy. Western Civilization (those books) is a manifestation, result and cause of patriarchy. It should not boggle the mind. "First you said women didn't have a voice. Then you said men did most of the talking. Make up your mind!"