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June 19, 2020 - Davis Aurini
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The Two-fold Nature of the Sexes

Originally uploaded May, 2016.

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So recently there's been a lot of horseshit being talked about transsexuals and gendered bathrooms and ambiguous sexualities.
All of that stuff's stupid.
I don't want to talk about any of it.
Let's just leave that at the front door and not touch it.
I'll tell you what I do want to talk about though, is the nature of opposites.
Because this is actually a pretty interesting topic.
This is something I've devoted a lot of time thinking about.
And, you know, I've basically come to the conclusion that there are three types of opposites.
The first is the chiral opposite.
So chiral.
That's an interesting word.
What the hell does that mean?
C-H-I-R-A-L, chiral.
Chirality.
You know, I first picked up on this in Breaking Bad, where they're talking about chiral molecules.
Because, well, let me give you a better example of chiral.
Chirality is when you have two things that are completely identical to each other.
They are built out of the exact same components.
They have the exact same design and the exact same function.
And yet they are completely different.
You cannot take a piece of one of them and replace a piece on the other one.
And the perfect example of chirality is your hands.
Completely identical.
Equally useful.
You know, maybe you're right-handed, maybe you're left-handed, but there's no inherent intrinsic reason why being right-handed is superior to being left-handed.
Completely chiral.
Completely mirrored.
And yet, you can't take a single bone from your right hand and replace a single bone in your left hand.
They are utterly unique.
Another example of chirality is the mirror reflection.
Now, a lot of people, they think that the mirror flips an image left to right.
No.
It flips your image front to back.
Those are what are flipped around.
And when you flip around one of the three axes, you reverse chirality.
So your left hand in the mirror looks like a right hand.
Even though it's on your left side, it is now a right hand in the flipped chirality in the mirror universe.
So that's chirality.
It's two things that are completely identical but cannot be exchanged.
You know, the two rotors on the brake pads, you know, on your brakes in the car.
The rotors, the brake pad squeeze on, you can't swap the two of those out, usually.
They are chiral to one another.
One is for the left, one is for the right.
can't be interchanged.
The next form of opposite is the one of degrees, the one of extremes, the gradient.
Over here you have white, over here you have black, and in between you have a gradient.
Now this type of opposite, this comes in a few different forms.
The first, white and black, that would be the bounded form.
It is bounded on white because like there's a maximum amount of whiteness and there's a maximum amount of blackness.
Right?
You can say that this is more white or that is more black, but there are extremes.
It is bounded on both sides.
Then you have the form where it's bounded only on one side.
Temperature, brightness.
These are bounded only on one side.
You have an absolute zero of temperature.
You have an absolute zero of brightness, like there's perfect darkness.
But brightness and temperature can always increase.
There is no limit to the amount of brightness or temperature that you can have.
And then some of them are just completely unbounded.
Left and right are completely unbounded.
Distance, the Cartesian coordinate system, unbounded in the left and the right.
You can always get more left and more right.
The opposites are effectively infinite.
And so an example of the gradient system that we would see in real life would be forest, plains, desert.
Right?
If we have this gradient of greenery, how much chlorophyll is in the environment?
Maximum chlorophyll in the forest, minimum in the desert.
But where does one begin and where does the other end?
You draw boundaries.
You have to draw a boundary, like, okay, here's the forest and here's the plan.
We're going to draw the line right here.
But it's a bit of an arbitrary sort of a thing.
You know, like, where is, what's the difference between light gray and dark gray is what we're talking about with those type of gradients.
Yes, there are opposites.
There are the extremes.
But there's no clear demarcation anywhere between.
It's a gradual thing.
So the chirals are completely indistinct.
The gradients are a pattern.
They're interrelated.
Now the third type of opposite is the complementary.
And this, yes, girl?
Yes, do you want something?
The complementary is particularly interesting because the complementary opposites are the two opposites that are designed for one another.
So for example, you've got plugs.
You've got electronic plugs.
You know, whether we're talking about USB or if we're talking about just your basic lamp plug-in, they are both formed of the same components.
You know, if you look at the plug going in to the socket and the socket it goes into, both of them have a cable coming out the other side.
You know, like a copper cable for electricity or a data cable for USB.
Identical cables, identical data.
And the components of the plug are made up of the same things.
You've got the copper, you've got the gold, you've got this arrangement.
Like they mirror one another, and yet they're not chiral.
These two items are designed for one another, and yet no one piece can be replaced with the other.
Another, a simpler example of this might be the contact lens.
Because the contact lens is a convex or a con, sorry, a concave shell that goes on top of a convex eye.
And if you look closely at a contact lens, it has a right way and a wrong way.
The hemisphere, it's not just a line.
It has a thickness, and it comes down to a flat point.
And if you flip it upside down, it won't quite work.
You can put that onto your eye by accident, but it'll be itchy.
It'll be scratching your eye the whole time because that's not the way it's supposed to be.
It has a specific manner in which it is supposed to be.
It is a concave, part sphere that's meant to meet up with the sphere of your eye.
So, three different types of opposites.
The chiral, the gradient, and the complementary.
What sort of opposite is human sex?
Well, let's look at the first one, the chiral.
Is sex a chiral sort of a difference?
No.
No, it's not.
You have a dominant hand.
One that you prefer to write with.
But your other hand could do just as well.
Not so with the sexes.
Women give birth.
Men do not.
You cannot trade the sexes.
They are not equal opposites.
They are not mirror images of one another.
Now our species, we happen to have quite a bit of sexual dimorphism, so it's a bit more obvious, right?
For instance, dogs and wolves, they're a little bit more, there's not as much differentiation.
You know, a female wolf and a male wolf, about the same ability to go hunt an elk.
Whereas we are very, very dissimilar from one another.
But on the most profound level, men cannot give birth.
It is functionally impossible for men to give birth.
Whereas the two hands are both equally good.
They are mirror opposites of one another.
The human sexes are not chiral.
Well, what about gradient?
Is human sex on a gradient?
And see, at first, you're probably going to think that, you know, you've seen some women that are abnormally strong or very, very butch or whatever.
They manifest classically masculine traits.
Or you see a male dandy who is, you know, an expert at fashion and fanciness and pizzazz.
And you think those are classically female traits.
Well, first of all, simplifying masculinity and femininity into such black and white extremes is just farcical.
Because listen, when you think about the forest and the desert, those are both two distinct places.
But when you think about a masculine man, we'll take, you know what, Conan the Barbarian, perfect example.
Conan the Barbarian is actually, if you read the stories, a very, very complex character.
He has his sensitive side.
He has his nurturing side.
He has his emotional side.
All these things that, thanks to feminism, we think of as feminine and non-masculine, men have those traits as well.
And women throughout history and throughout literature throughout history, okay, going all the way back to the ancient Greeks, women have demonstrated what, according to feminists, is masculine behavior, integrity, courage, faithfulness, etc.
The fact of the matter is that the dandy, a good dandy, you take Oscar Wilde, very masculine.
And a woman that manifests, you know, that has large muscles, that is ferocious, is a big mama bear.
Well, look at some of the female MMA fighters.
And yes, some of them are very confused, but some of them are just genuine, good quality women that happen to have a bit more natural muscle than most men do.
See, the thing is with the gradient, you need to find the middle ground.
And now people will say, well, what about intersex people?
And here's the real rub.
The fact that intersex exists is what demonstrates that this is not a gradient.
You see, there is no middle ground between male and female.
When you get intersex, you get like somebody with three X chromosomes or an XXY chromosome.
What you get is genetic damage.
There's long, since humanity has been around, there's been the legend of the hermaphrodite.
Okay, hermaphrodite actually comes from Hermaphroditis, from the Greek legends.
If you look at the tarot cards, the world is a man with breasts and the genitals covered.
Okay, and it is present in all cultures.
The myth of the hermaphrodite doesn't exist.
The interesting thing about the XXY, if I'm remembering correctly, if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.
There's one of the intersex chromosomes, I believe it's the XXY because of that Y chromosome in there, because of that Y chromosome that wants to release testosterone, the two X chromosomes go into overdrive.
And what results, interestingly enough, is one of the most feminine creatures you will ever see.
Some of the most feminine women in Hollywood, in modeling, they're actually hermaphrodites.
They're XXY.
And their body has reacted so harshly against the Y chromosome that they become extremely feminine.
And there are cases of the reverse.
Where man, where what we would think of as a man has an ovary, his testicles are actually ovaries because of genetic damage, and so he becomes hyper-masculine.
Rarely, very rarely, you'll actually see genitals that are so damaged that they're not quite discernible, especially at birth.
You can't tell what it is, whether it's a man or a woman.
The genitals are so ambiguous.
And see, this reminds me of like a contact lens that has been so worn out and so dried up that half of it wants to go like this and the other half goes like this and everything else is wrinkled in the middle.
It's not a balance.
It's not a middle ground in between the woods and the desert.
It is clearly damaged.
There is no middle ground between the sexes.
You are either masculine or feminine.
And furthermore, the fact that so many intersex people, because of the chromosomal damage, manifest extreme masculinity or femininity.
More so than any genetic male or female.
here we get back to complementarianism.
You see the plug needs to mate with the socket.
They need to fit together.
And because of this, because man was designed for woman and woman was designed for man, or evolved, go Tipafedora, each will have traits of the other.
Because complementary things need to mate with one another, they will not be perfectly of themselves.
A perfect vessel, a perfect socket, would accept everything and nothing.
And likewise, the perfect plug would plug into everything and do absolutely nothing.
Except destroyed, I suppose.
The complementary opposites also need to embody the other half.
They need to acknowledge and embrace the other half.
And so both of them will be an imperfect version of what they could have been because they're separate.
You see, the contact lens and the eyeball, you know, when they go together, the contact lens is a slave to the eye.
The contact lens only exists for the eye.
It has no independent existence.
The contact lens away from the eye loses all meaning, loses all purpose.
It's just a piece of plastic.
Whereas when we talk about complementary opposites, when we talk about the plug and the socket coming together, each of them have an intrinsic existence.
They don't need the other.
The light fixture still exists, even when it's not plugged in.
It still has a mechanism.
It just doesn't have an electric power source.
And the socket, even without anything being plugged into it, has that potential power source.
It has this independent existence to it.
And then when they come together, when we look at how they come together, there's rough bits of metal.
There's inconsistencies.
There's some plugs that work better for some sockets and some sockets that work better for some plugs.
It's interesting.
The yin and the yang, they've each got a little dot of the other in them.
And so same too with the sexes.
An extreme female, an XXY, that is perfectly female, can't mate, cannot bear children.
And the most extreme masculine person is probably going to be a homosexual.
The fact that the sexes aren't the perfect ideation of the sexes is what proves that they are designed for each other and that they're complementary and that there is no middle ground.
You're either man or you're woman.
And when it comes to masculine roles and feminine roles, like let's be frank, folks, there are 3.5 billion different types of masculinity on this planet.
And just as many types of femininity.
But trying to ape the existence of the other, well, it just doesn't fit the math.
You know, you can't be a tree growing next to a spring in the desert or a patch of sand in the forest if the nature of sex is complementary.
And when you look at the sexual organs, the male and female organs, they mimic each other in many ways.
They have the same basic structure, and yet they do completely opposite things.
They are not chiral.
They are not gradient.
The sexual organs mirror one another in a complementary fashion.
But you can't do an organ transplant and take a dick and make a uterus.
So that's what I've got to say about opposites.
And I'm sure as hell not telling you how to live your life.
That's just a logical, philosophical argument.
Hope y'all are doing well.
Deus Volt, Hurini Out.
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