In the speech of Aristophanes, it seems that it does bring up the nature of masculinity towards males and femininity towards females for them having particular needs from each other, but one thing that stays out the most, both of them have in common, which is the want and the need of having love from other people. I do not think this storytelling of this speech can be used to derive valid points about human gender. The masculinity and the femininity is not just black and white terms to be defined millions of males for their masculinity traits and females for their femininity traits. Individually, every male and every female are different from their body features to their personality for it to be strictly and only label in one category of femininity
