My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity—intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
Carlos Santana
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I’m not a fan of the he/she divide in the psyche. As much as I like Jungian archetypes, this topic (that I’ve heard all my life) seems to be divisive for divisiveness’ sake. We all have estrogen and testosterone in our systems, and our genitals develop from the same preputial bud. And where do the intersexed fit in this discussion? Shall I as a man (or woman as your case might be) get in touch with my intersexed side? Why can’t I just be human?
I’m with you Dan. I think we make the most genuine connections when we relate at the human level.