The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate…
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OK, let's be contentious!
Are men and women really a binary split? Consider how they are made. They all start as cells which get duplicated. Each cell has a complete copy of the plan in it. There is no difference between the sexes apart from that plan.
What makes the differences is the processing steps that happen to those cells as they replicate. Different chemicals become applied at different times to make the different end results. The plan specifies what should arrive when.
Imagine building a house from bricks where each brick has a copy of the plan inside it. You plan to build either a two-storey house or a single-storey bungalow. However, in your house build the bricks for the upper floor do not arrive on time. On a house build you would wait but human development does not wait. So time would elapse while the upper floor was not being built and then the roofing materials would arrive and be put in place on top of the single storey.
Then the staircase would be fitted. Some houses would be single-storey but with a staircase. Not quite as binary as we intended. People develop the same way.