In life, the reverse is the case.

In knowing and in doing, man is positive and woman negative: man initiates, and woman lives up to it.
Naturally this nicely arranged order of things may be reversed.

Action and utterance, which are male, are polarized against feeling, emotion, which are female.

And which is positive, which negative?
Was man, the eternal protagonist, born of woman, from her womb of fathomless emotion?
Or was woman, with her deep womb of emotion, born from the rib of active man, the first created?
Man, the doer, the knower, the original in _being_, is he lord of life?
Or is woman, the great Mother, who bore us from the womb of love, is she the supreme Goddess?
This is the question of all time.

And as long as man and woman endure, so will the answer be given, first one way, then the other.