Homo politicus was almost always expressly male across Western political thought.

Evidence

Historically, even when its masculinity was not explicitly asserted and women’s exclusion from the category was not overt, homo politicus from Aristotle through Kant and Hegel assumed a masculinist comportment and sphere of activity. Whether stipulated as participating in rule of the common (Aristotle), as paralleling military virtu (Machiavelli), as manly measure and fortitude (Weber), or simply as autonomy, rationality, and self-sovereignty (the moderns), homo politicus was almost always and expressly male. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 195

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reciprocal alterity has always been exclusive to relations between men. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 164

Broader Connections

• Reciprocal alterity has always been exclusive to relations between men. #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 164