unfortunately, the main critic of the socratic idea of abolishing heteropatriarchy was aristotle, who was pretty much wrong about everything he ever wrote about. there's essentially nobody in history that was wrong more often, more consistently and more totally than aristotle. he's maybe the single worst source of information in recorded history.

i'm not going to call aristotle an idiot, as that's not entirely fair, although he did reject a lot of good evidence in favour of a lot of bad arguments. i blame a lot on christianity, but a big part of the problem with christianity is that it picked aristotle over plato so often, in ways that were so catastrophically harmful.

i'm not going to run through the debate, except to say that, as usual, socrates was right - and aristotle was dead wrong.