Comments on: Are Males & Females Opposites?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:09:15 +0000

Perhaps, but you definitely get something other than an absolute X or an absolute Y (or is that XX and XY).

By: JM

JM — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:41:30 +0000

Alright mr. smarty pants. I stand corrected. But still, even within a spectrum between X and Y, you don't get Z.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:47:32 +0000

Our gender spectrum still only goes from X to Y with combinations and variations between them.

How can you have a binary system and a spectrum at the same time?

By: JM

JM — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:02:20 +0000

I was waiting for that.

Personally, I reject that position. If we have gender X and gender Y, a combination of the two doesn't make a gender Z with Z having different and separate attributes than X and Y (for instance, the ability to procreate asexually). Our gender spectrum still only goes from X to Y with combinations and variations between them.

Personally, I believe these to be physical differences and not spiritual. Spiritually, I believe all of us to be either X or Y.

If you can show me a gender W or a gender Z, with mutually exclusive gender attributes, then I would be able to accept that ther would be a third, fourth, etc... Other than that, I accept that we have a binary gender system.

By: rick

rick — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:01:35 +0000

I think the real question is would a man and a woman be any more different than two men or two women.

I would submit that the differences are as great or greater than the similarities among the sexes as are the similarities.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:28:44 +0000

There are certainly more than two genders.

By: JM

JM — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:18:48 +0000

In a binary system, each entity is the opposite of the other. In that sense, male and female are opposites since there really isn't a third gender.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:54:48 +0000

I still think that where the opposite comes in, is when people refer to men and women as members of the â€œopposite sexâ€.

Which is the point of my post. Are we opposite sexes? I don't disagree that some men are different from some women, but I don't know that I would go so far as to say men and women are opposites.

Another example: men are portrayed as logical thinkers, and women are portrayed as emotional thinkers. Are logic and emotion opposites?

By: Dar

Dar — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:58:11 +0000

No, not unless that daughter has a twisted way of dealing with death, or couldn't stand her father...

I still think that where the opposite comes in, is when people refer to men and women as members of the "opposite sex".

I don't think that they would respond in an opposite manner to a situation, perhaps just differently than each other. Especially in regards to relationships, communication, emotional needs, and stress.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:37:50 +0000

Dar,

While some men and some women may respond to situations differently, do they respond to them oppositely?

For example, if a father dies, does his daughter laugh with happiness while his son cries with sadness?