Male and Female Complementarity

 

Men and women have both masculine and feminine traits, although one may identify more with one sex and project the other. Both masculine and feminine qualities are equally good and necessary and complement the other. However, we often see an unbalanced expression of a particular trait, both individually and collectively.

Unbalanced Male	Male Aspect	Female Aspect	Unbalanced Female
objectivism, dogma	truth	love, caring	subjectivism, sentiment
asceticism	spirit	nature	naturalism, instinctivism
aggression	assertion, initiation	flow, momentum	passivism, fatalism
manipulating, compulsive	will, doing	being, expressing	resignation, perpetuation
rigid, crystallized	focused, controlled	relaxed, letting go	inchoate, confused
pushy, exploitive	progressive, linear	unfolding, mutable	repetition, stagnation
privilege, entitlement	human rights, law	responsibility, care	sacrifice, burden
legalism	principles, policies	people, relationship	personalism
isolation	independence	interdependence	dependence
antisocial	reserve	intimacy	enmeshed
selfishness	individualism	community	self-denial
skepticism, nihilism	rationality, reason	intuition, feelings	superstition, psychism
absolutism	abstract, impersonal	personal, contextual	relativism
reductionist	analysis, evaluation	inclusive, accepting	undifferentiated
one-dimensional	transcendent	transformative	chaotic, diffused
coercive, domineering	dynamic, impelling	receptive, adaptive	submissive, possessed
power, status	hierarchical ordering	horizontal connections	mass, group compliant
war, violence	competition	cooperation	sacrifice, weakness
heartless, head trips	thoughts	emotions	mindless chatter, diatribes
cruelty	impartial justice	expression of feelings	hysteria, venting
autocratic, totalitarian	aristocratic	democratic, egalitarian	anarchic
standardization	science	art	aestheticism
bureaucracy	politics	religion	devotionalism

 

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