section_path: Practical philosophy/Gender and sexuality
section_name: Gender and sexuality
paragraph_text: Gender and sexuality
  
  Aristotle asserted that men were superior to women writing "the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject".
  
  On this ground, proponents of feminist metaphysics have accused Aristotle of misogyny and sexism. However, Aristotle gave equal weight to women's happiness as he did to men's, and commented in his Rhetoric that the things that lead to happiness need to be in women as well as men. Aristotle like other greek philosophers such Plato and Xenophon rejected the Homosexuality believing that it could lead people to become immoral due to the fact that he believed it went against nature's purpose.