I was talking to some friends in one of those drunken rambling conversations that go everywhere, and we spent a bit of time talking about how, despite the fact that your average walking-around person doesn't really know all that much about Freud, many of the ideas associated with a Freudian view of dreams are still prevalent, uncritically accepted, and uncritically applied.

And I bet, even though the average walking-around person wouldn't have a conversation about the notion of "lack," that we still tend as a society to structure our images and understandings of others based on what we perceive them as desiring due to lack, and those lines of perception still fall not only on binaries, but on binaries that have, well, sex organs attached to them. (Er, weird mental picture). I'm not sure if this makes sense as I'm still a bit nap-addled, but here's to effort lol.