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