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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read Plato's Symposium as a teen. It's a classic, obviously, but its totally f-ing weird. I'm a woman and as a teen, I basically learned about misogyny through Greek philosophy. In the Republic, Plato spends a lot of time comparing and contrasting women and tools, eventually concluding that tools, at least, are useful. Then he recommends a sort of Nazi program of taking men and women and having them have sex, then the babies would be raised by the state, in order to eliminate unfairness. Symposium talks a lot about having sex with children.

To this day, I am kind of grossed out by Greek philosophy. Aristotle is the most tolerable. But it's basically written by pedophiles who hate women. I mean, there's no way around it. I don't think it should be banned but I've also noticed that very few people have actually read it, and if you did, you might be over here "wtf-ing" with me. [/quote]
Exactly. Either the losers in this thread haven't read the book before going into hysterics over its exclusion from the reading list or they think a book that extols child rape and the enslavement of women whose sole use is supplying children to rape is essential reading. Should we also include the works of other pedophiles in the syllabus? Maybe a tome by Epstein is just what is needed to round out the curriculum. [/quote]
[b]If you want an ancient book with misogyny, violence, and slavery you might try reading the Bible.[/b]  Presumably the government of Texas will ban teaching that too?[/quote]

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