Alchemists
Women as Watering Cans The Alchemists have always seen the women’s role in society and history as the barrier of children who’s primary responsibility was to provide nurture and sustenance to the seed placed in her by the male. ... Alchemists believed that a woman’s destiny in life was to become a wife and a mother. ... Alchemists viewed men in science as being superior and women as being inferior. ... Alchemists correlated heat and perfection. ... Males were seen by the alchemists as masculine and eternal, females as feminine and mortal. Alchemists believed that the final stage in life, the perfect stage, was a masculine stage. ... Never did it have anything to do with the man because the alchemists believed that man was perfect in nature and essence. ... Since the alchemists believed that women had no understanding in the world, their acts would turn out to be evil. ... Alchemists were seen in science as being constructivists. ... The alchemists adopted Aristotle’s paradigm that women possessed a weaker seed then men and that the perfect human form was masculine, never feminine. ... The alchemists may have adopted Aristotle’s paradigm simply because it possessed a strong reputation from other scientists. ... Feyerbend could be correlating the alchemists with scientists who come up with their own theories in science for some particular reason.