sez Aristotle (and Genesis and others) that's who

Again, the same holds good between man and the other animals: tame animals are superior in their nature to wild animals, yet for all the former it is advantageous to be ruled by man, since this gives them security. Again, as between the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject. And the same must also necessarily apply in the case of mankind as a whole; therefore all men that differ as widely as the soul does from the body and the human being from the lower animal （and this is the condition of those whose function is the use of the body and from whom this is the best that is forthcoming） these are by nature slaves, for whom to be governed by this kind of authority is advantageous, inasmuch as it is advantageous to the subject things already mentioned. For he is by nature a slave who is capable of belonging to another （and that is why he does so belong）, and who participates in reason so far as to apprehend it but not to possess it; for the animals other than man are subservient not to reason, by apprehending it, but to feelings. And also the usefulness of slaves diverges little from that of animals; bodily service for the necessities of life is forthcoming from both, from slaves and from domestic animals alike. The intention of nature therefore is to make the bodies also of freemen and of slaves different—the latter strong for necessary service, the former erect and unserviceable for such occupations, but serviceable for a life of citizenship （and that again divides into the employments of war and those of peace）
-- Aristotle, Politics,  1254b

Females are born botched males, and through their lifetime females are physically colder and mentally less rational than males.  In humans as well as in animals, the female species has fewer teeth than males.  -- all of this according to Aristotle's biology

"The biological profiles of males and females . . . reveal [a] myriad [of] basic biological differences, many of which shape behavior." -- Gregg Johnson, quoted by Gary Steward and Sally Michael.

"Biological difference between men and women are [sic] more than just the obvious differences.  Men and women are wired differently." -- Gary Steward and Sally Michael

"You don't need to be a kindergarten teacher or an educational psychologist to observe that boys are different than girls.  Do a little experiment of your own.  Observe your church nursery or at [sic] any other gathering of little children.  See what behavior each gender exhibits, what toys they prefer, and how they play with each other.  Write your observations below.
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-- Gary Steward and Sally Michael

"If all gender differences were culturally determined, you would expect to find some societies where females are the risk takers and males play with dolls.  There would be some societies in which females, on the average, would do better in math and young males would be more verbally adept than females.  But where are they?" -- Christina Hoff Sommers, a female calculating averages and attempting herself to be as verbally adept as the average female, as quoted by Gary Steward and Sally Michael.

Plutarch wrote that “the men of Sparta always obeyed their wives.”   Aristotle was even more critical of the influence women [in the Spartan society] had in politics arguing that it was contributing to the downfall of the country.

Aristotle & Baron-Cohen & Summers & Sommers: On Difference

A good friend of mine (an academic, a literary scholar, a rhetorician, not a feminist) wrote me last Friday (to share with me Christina Hoff Sommers’s op-ed piece “Academic Inquisitors”). He said:

I wanted to share with you a very interesting, if divisive and perplexing, article from today's Wall Street Journal. The article makes me wonder, don't feminist scholars want to show that women have a different perspective and epistemology? Or does that thesis depend on whether one finds herself (or himself) in the humanities or in science?

Others of you more qualified than I and more personally vested in the rhetoric here should have good answers to these questions. Please feel free to comment! But because my friend asks me, and because I can’t sit quiet when I think (with the mother of my children) about our first-born (our son) in the academy and our other children (our daughters) not far behind, here’s what I say:

Yes, women and men are different and have valuable differences. You and I are different (whoever we are). Gender makes different; race makes different; class makes different; place makes different; disability makes different.

No, finding myself in the humanities or in science does not erase the difference of one human body from another. Or the difference of one human brain from the next (whether autistic, if that’s the “far end of the male norm -- the ‘extreme male brain,’ all systematizing and no empathizing” or “wired to be . . . better empathizers” if that’s the other extreme in the female norm, as per scientist Simon Baron-Cohen, as per journalist Sommers.)

So, I ask:

Aren’t all men and women created equal (if we are different in body and brain and perspective and epistemology and rhetoric)?

And is Aristotle a humanitarian or a scientist when he declares that

Greeks are different from (and therefore superior to) Barbarians;

natural born masters are different from (and therefore superior to) natural born slaves;

males are different from (and therefore superior to) females, who are merely

males botched in the biology of conception by the mother’s mal-functioning;

and males are different from (and therefore superior to) females, because males have more teeth and males have heads full of sperm and have backbones that de-seminate the powerful fluid from the brain to the testicles, the natural receptacles for in-semination (if the females serving as mothers would just get the procreation process right)?