Venus vs. Mars

 

Venus	Mars
Cooperation	Competition
Similarity	Difference
Complexity	Simplicity
Generalisation	Specification
The group	The individual
Conformity	Rebellion
Chaos	Order
Imprecision	Precision
Art and Religion	Science and Technology
Emotion	Thought
Friends talk to each other	Friends do things together
Style	Substance
Multitasking	One thing at a time
Subterfuge, intrigue	Conflict, confrontation
Hide, private	Show, public
Gather and save	Hunt and eat
Progress (change)	Conserve (stability)
Dependence	Autonomy
Body	Mind
MacOS	Windows

I'm sure most readers will have a preference for one column (or parts thereof) above the other. You need both, of course, (I even apply this to MacOS and Windows, albeit on different computers) and in most cases, one cannot exist (or could not have existed) without the other.

Since first writing this entry, I happened to read a book by Erich Fromm called The Forgotten Language, in which he discusses, among many other things, a theory by Bachofen, about the differences between patriarchal and matriarchal societies, which I will need to integrate into the above some day.