Androgyny and Gender Neutralism

Both genders have been equally discriminated into gender roles which made them easier to control (by industry for production or the church for reproduction), but because of the difference in the size of their groups, women had greater power over less people (family) and men lesser power over more people (work).
Neither could have much of one without giving up some of the other, so that women came to have less political connection and men to have less social connection, and in this men and women alike are both victims and abettors of their gender roles. Both masculism and feminism have equally wanted to end their gender roles, but are themselves sexist in seeing only their own gender roles, even though they can only be created and destroyed through each other. Whatever gender differences we have are limitations, and we can only be whole once androgynous. It is not enough for women to become more as men as has happened so far: for our society to return to balance, men must also become more as women.

To empathize is to project ourselves into others, so we can only understand others' perception inasmuch as we share it. Thus, our stereotypes of others are actually part of ourselves, incl. those about men and women. We all start out androgynous, but in puberty our feminine and masculine aspects split, one becoming developing into adulthood while the other may stay in an earlier stage, which we project onto the other gender. Like the rest of our mind, it goes through a cycle of integration and disintegration in its development:

1 infant stage - formless: schizophrenic (id forms);

– indifferent: unaware of differences

2 child stage - singular: narcissistic (ego forms);

— negative: fear of differences

3 puberal stage - multiple: conformist (superego forms);

— positive: desire for differences

4 adult stage - fully formed: responsible (id, ego, superego link).

— balanced: internalization of differences