What are gender relations? The question, which seems so simple at first, is subsequently baffled. Thoughts that come to mind weakly add up to words, not to mention the excellent wording.
Male and female
Man and woman are the most banal and at the same time the most mysterious tandem. They embody the idea of opposites in nature. But at the same time they reflect its unity. It is not surprising that such a mystery, lying in plain sight, could not be so easily missed.
Ancient Greek mythology appealed to the above idea more than once. A lot of attention was also paid to it from the Chinese side: the famous yin and yang symbolize just the feminine and masculine principles, respectively.
Usually they represent female nature as passive-natural, and male nature as social-creative, which yin and yang demonstrate. However, one should not forget that man and woman, black and white, night and day, darkness and light - despite their dissimilarity, give the perfect combination.
Binary symbolism
Already the above examples make it clear that the binary world is an indisputable fact. Humanity uses the idea of duality in its favor: take at least machine (computer) code. It is a binary sequence of numbers. What is curious, taking duality as the basis of many sciences, people are still not able to fully understand its most important sources.
Androgyny
Many ancient mythologies, in addition to juxtaposing and uniting the feminine and masculine principles, widely considered the concept of androgyny, bisexuality. In China, yin and yang were never perceived as something isolated: even medicine was based on the principle that in each human body there are enough of those and other particles. Just some of them prevail over others. At present, this translates into the theory of masculinity and femininity: despite the fact that the first corresponds more to a man and the second corresponds to a woman, each person in different proportions shows both qualities (properties).
Tear down the usual notions
The problems of the relationship between the sexes are understandable from the point of view of logic: how can opposed things come together so easily? The purely everyday side of life proves this. It is stereotyped to assume that some occupations / qualities / character traits are closer to a woman, and others to a man. Now, when the ideas of masculinity / femininity and their relationship with the sexes are being revised, many speculations have to be rejected for lack of evidence.
The study of gender identity has now reached a high level, and it is not limited to the simple "I feel like a man (or woman)."
Love as a link
Almost half of the article is about how the yin and yang are opposite. About their unity is said only a couple of times, inadvertently, although this is a fact. All of the above only confirms how complex the relationship between a man and a woman is and what is the problem of gender relations. What makes the two opposites unite?
The basis on which the relations of the sexes are held is love. She is responsible for overcoming mistrust, fear of the unknown and the new. Unfortunately (or fortunately), this is not a feeling that can be described in a few words. Love is always complex and multifaceted. But it always has respect, trust and mutual understanding. That is why the moral attitude of the sexes is the basis of normal family life, and subsequently the healthy development of society.
Moral culture of gender relations
Morality is easy to question. Morality as an attitude is just an invention of people that can evolve or degrade, in other words, change in one direction or another. Therefore, the moral culture of the relationship of the sexes is too complicated a question to solve. It is studied by sociologists and psychologists: as a whole and in each case individually.
Projection on reality
The relationship between the sexes is governed by many factors. Among them there are external and internal. Among themselves, these factors are also interrelated.
External influence on the part of society and public opinion forms in the head of a person an attitude to a particular sex. Pouring into stereotypes, the problems that relate to the relationship of the sexes may be caused by the fact that one partner does not correspond to the image based on the idea of masculinity / femininity in the head of another partner.
Another reason: the projection of one’s own problems and feelings onto relationships.
Features of the psyche
Socio-cultural conditions have led to the fact that distrust of the opposite sex, stemming from the characteristics of the psyche, intensifies. Historical traditions successfully separated the feminine and masculine principles, emphasizing their dissimilarity of clothing and mannerisms. The modern world is not so inclined to this, but is still susceptible to stereotypes. And distrust, which comes from childhood and the subconscious, although it is smoothed out in adulthood because of attraction, interest and the development of one’s own thinking, but continues to influence gender relations in a bad way.
Society pressure
This has already been mentioned in the article earlier. Society can be one of the factors of external influence on gender relations. What problems can this result in?
If the environment does not recognize manifestations of femininity in males or, on the contrary, in females, masculinity, a person will not be able to fully develop in accordance with his mental state. Needless to say, without self-realization she will not be able to build healthy relationships?
The specifics of solving the problem
The problem of gender relations is solved in each case, based on the psychological characteristics of partners.
External factors are studied and regulated by sociological studies, as a result of which experts make certain decisions to improve relations between the sexes in a separate sociocultural environment. They remain an urgent problem and a central topic for discussion due to their influence on social development in principle.