I guess this falls under philosophy and science. Also blends in with Non-duality.
I've been contemplating this for a while now. We seem to have quite a good sense of what masculinity is and what femininity is, and we have an understanding that both men and women can tend towards more masculine or feminine traits- although perhaps most of the time it is considered to be 'good' for most men to be masculine and for most women to be feminine.
I've been looking at neuroscience of the transgender brain and it seems that all evidence points towards the transgender brain being closer to the opposite sex than their given sex at birth. I was also listening to some Alan Watt lectures and listening to how he describes Yin and Yang as less oppositional and more interwoven. The idea that we are all a mix of naturally arising phenomena.
That said- aside from the categories our ego gives to distinguish the other, would you make clear cut distinctions between man and women in comparison to femininity and masculinity? What distinctions are these? It seems strange to identify as 'man' just because we have an additional body part- does a penis make you a 'man' if we are not our bodies? It would be interesting to hear all of your thoughts
