Author Unknown
The greatest lie of the modern world? That men and women are the same, that they are interchangeable.
Women carry life. Men don’t. Women are born with every egg they’ll ever have. Men produce sperm daily. Women bleed, birth, and breastfeed. Men do not. Not “social constructs”, simple biology.
Women are estrogen-dominant, emotional, relational, cyclical. Men are testosterone-driven, aggressive, linear, stable. That affects everything: energy, behavior, libido, attachment, and even brain function.
Women have more connective tissue between brain hemispheres. They multitask, read emotion, and process relational cues faster. Men are more specialized, better at focus, spatial reasoning, and system-building.
Women feel deeply and express emotion. Men feel deeply and act on emotion. Women bond through words. Men bond through shared goals.
Women seek security and love. Men seek respect and purpose. This shows up in every relationship dynamic, ignore it, and you breed resentment.
Women are receptive. Men are initiatory. Women desire connection to open up sexually. Men often need sex to feel connected. Opposite designs. Perfect complement.
Women create the emotional atmosphere. Men establish structure and direction. When both are in their roles, the home flourishes.
Men protect, solve, and move forward. Women nurture, comfort, and reflect. One defends the home. One heals it.
Women lean toward people. Men lean toward things, systems, ideas. That’s why even in free societies, women dominate caregiving and education, while men dominate engineering and tech.
We weren’t made the same. We were made for each other. Sameness was never the goal, harmony was.
The lie is that men and women must be the same to be equal. The truth is: they were never meant to be the same. They were meant to be together.
That’s what feminism forgot, and what tradition has always known.