It occurs to me that many things in this culture might be very different if we referred to women and men not as "opposite sexes," but complementary ones.
Not disparate and mutually exclusive constructs, not pieces of a binary opposition, not foes who do battle, but bookends, in between which exist a spectrum of experience and presentation.
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