Hic & Haec

The Man-Woman (Hic-Mulier)

The Womanish-Man (Haec-Vir)

"what doth hee behold in me, to take me for a woman"

"since the days of Adam women were never so masculine"

Calls gender variance a disease

Masculinity

Mood, bold speech, impudent action

Women are "the complements of men's excellencies"

Definitely NOT the object of excellence

Misgender each other immediately

Women = modest, virtuous, chaste, glorious - subservient

"a deformitie never before dreamed of"

Dialogue vs Monologue

Monologue (Hic-Mulier) feels preachy

Dialogue (Haec-Vir) invites the reader to consider multiple perspectives.

Sophocles - presented no women in his tragedies but good ones...as they should be

Euripides - No women but the bad ones...as the are

What slauery can there be in freedome of election?

They're making the same argument: people need to fall in gender line