Celebrating Differences

We all understand that inequalities exist between the sexes in terms of opportunity and power. The solution to this inequality is not as easy to discover as its existence.

Some suggest that we resolve the dilemma by shifting our focus from the feminine and masculine side of ourselves and look instead at the commonality we share as persons. This has appeal, in the same way that universalism has appeal in politics. We may all become citizens of the world but we pay the price of no longer being unique as Chinese, Brazilian, French, or American. We may all become persons, neither male nor female. But it is also dreary, like an ice cream store that serves only vanilla.

There is something magical about the connected-ness that we share when we celebrate our masculine and feminine natures in an equal relationship in which mutual trust, love, and respect exist. A place where there are no games, or attempts to manipulate, but rather the completing of each in a way that can never be accomplished in isolation or in antagonism.