Divide

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The Great War, a conflict which was planted by our ancestors when they jubilantly relinquished their roots from their ancestral primates; becoming Homosapiens (the scientifically correct term for a modern human) they engaged in a battle between the sexes, lasting a little over two millennium, never inkling the tangent of resolution, nor wandering into the vicinity of conclusion, and most probably, never will. Humanity, obsessed with the divide of genders, has even coined its own axiom: “Women are from Venus” and “Men are from Mars”, alluding to whirlwind of rampant violence, yet less woeful Romeo and Juliet-like myths of the Roman-stolen from the Greeks-deities, Aphrodite (Venus), goddess of love and beauty, and her relationship with her half-brother/lover Ares (Mars), the god of war. Jiles’s minimalist, though intricate “Paper Matches” and Tweedie’s whimsical “The Tribe that Lost its Way” complement each other through their similar themes and representation of the sexes, exploring the great gender divide.

The Gender Gap, the discrepancy in opportunities, attitudes and appearance et...

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