| Yin | Yang |
| female | male |
| dark | light |
| passive | active |
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| It's a common intellectual device to combine a stack of dualisms, and to claim that taken together they define two, broad opposing categories. | |||||||||
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| The above sketch is an icon to remind that even if there is some validity to each of the dichotomies, the pairs of opposing sets may not perfectly overlap. | |||||||||
| The cracks in the alignment may be the most interesting places to be. | |||||||||