Gender Contrasts in Soma and Psyche. If females are generally more externally, or somatically, calm than males and males, by contrast, more internally, or psychically, calm than females, does this mean that females are generally stronger than males in sensuality and males stronger than females in sensibility?  In a manner of speaking I guess it does, because somatic passivity is hegemonic over somatic activity, or aggressiveness, in sensuality, whereas psychic passivity is hegemonic over psychic activity, or aggressiveness, in sensibility, and one could argue that the female is accordingly stronger than the male in the one context and the male stronger than the female in the other.  But 'strong' is not a word I would care to use here, because of its antithetical association with 'weak', both of which, to my way of thinking, correspond to female realities in competition with a male antithesis, in corporeal phenomenality, between knowledge and ignorance, weakness chemically hegemonic over the antiphysicality of ignorance, knowledge physically hegemonic over the antichemistry of strength across the phenomenal axial divide of the southwest and southeast points of our axial compass (see preceding entry), both of which positions are subject, however, to inter-axial modification in respect of their northeast and northwest points respectively.  Therefore rather than arguing in terms of a strong/weak dichotomy between somatically calm females and somatically aggressive males in sensuality or, conversely, between psychically calm males and psychically aggressive females in sensibility, I shall contend that a sort of positive/negative distinction exists between the genders in both sensuality and sensibility, with females more somatically positive than their male counterparts in the one context but males more psychically positive than their female counterparts in the other case, neither of whom are 'true to themselves' when negative, or aggressive, because obliged to be negative under positive hegemonic pressures appertaining to the hegemonic gender.  Hence females and males can only be 'true to themselves' in opposite fashions, and this is why life remains a kind of gender tug-of-war between those whose positivity appertains to somatic calmness and those, by contrast, whose positivity appertains to psychic calmness, the respective extremes of calmness only possible independently of the opposite sex, whichever sex that may happen to be, since aggressiveness from the subordinate gender in either context takes its toll on the hegemonic gender's positivity even as that positivity is responsible for conditioning, in no small measure, such negativity as may somatically or psychically accrue in the opposite gender to its hegemonic sway.