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tioned control on the
other. Hence the two- column List(?) It seems to express the same
duality. J feels the same pressures in his job, and in many ways the
two columns reflect these two sides of our personalities.
Here's my theory: It seems certain that the differences between
male/female (dominant/passive, whatever) roles and behavioral patterns
are the result of social--maybe even biological--evolution. If so, it
follows that they are a socio-biological adaptation imposed on a pre-
existing background psychology that is almost certainly more gender-
intermediate than either of those two stereotypic extremes. It then
follows that there is an unexpressed "more feminine" side to males and
an unexpressed "more masculine" side of the female psychology. Both of
these sides are perfectly "natural." Perhaps much of what is regarded
as deviant sexual behavior (that is, deviant from the acceptable
stereotypic extremes of the male-female spectrum) is the unguarded
expression of those natural but sexually intermediate feelings.
On the other hand, I had a younger
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