When the professor said yin yang in the class, I was little surprised and excited because I knew this word. The professor used this word to illustrate some example about male and female.
From my point of view, yin yang talks about two opposed things, and those two things can represent almost everything, like black and white, female and male, darkness and lightness, bad things and good things. Although it describes two opposed things, but the relationship between those two are very complicated. From the image of yin yang we can tell that there is not a clear line between them, and some black exists in white and some white exists in black.
Yin yang not only can exhibit Chinese philosophy, but it can also suitable for the topic of feminism. To talk about female and male, the first and the most important thing is to know that they are different. Men and women cannot exist solely without the other and it doesn't mean women must marry a man. Men have labels like strong, brave, good at science, and women also have labels like sensitive, gentle and soft. But at the very beginning,I think these characteristics do not have relationship with gender. Women also need to be brave to give birth to a child, men also need be sensitive enough to observe others. The combination of those two must be the most solid and long-lasting relationship.
For men and women, the differences are not strange,but the way people treat those difference are strange.
When I was a child in about 1996, drawing yin yangs became popular among the children I played with. We didn't really know what it meant but we knew they were about getting along with each other. I am from Indiana.
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