Disclaimer: This post is not about love.

I was writing an essay about America's defense strategies when I made an analogy and I used the term 'the opposite gender.'

Now, nothing sounds wrong with that but it got me thinking, language matters a lot. And when we say opposite it makes it sound like we are enemies. It makes it sound like there is a battlefield, and females are on one side and males are on the opposite side, and we are fighting each other to death. Of course, misandry and misogyny exist but we aren't the opposite of each other. We are just different, but we are still on the same side. We aren't fighting, and we shouldn't be fighting. So from now on, I will use 'the other gender' when I talk about males and experiment how my mindset changes with that. Because I think that might be a contributing factor in our dislike of the opposite gender. If we had progressed through history, through time, knowing and believing that we weren't enemies and we were on the same side it could have changed our perspectives on each other. I know we are different physically and mentally, but both genders are human. We are both on the humanity side of the battle, and the battle is against inhumanity. We are fighting together against inhumanity. Join the fight, let's win this battle.

Lots of realizations,
~Belle