‘I don’t want to prove a woman is strong like a man – no, a woman is strong in her own way, our strength is in our femininity.” These words of Angela Nikolau in the Netflix documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story set the tone for what would be a profound and welcome exposition of masculinity and femininity. The documentary follows the lives of Angela and Vanya, two Russian “rooftoppers” who scale tall buildings without any safety equipment.
It’s easy for English speakers to believe that the ancients merely projected their own biological gender out onto nature in calling heaven masculine and earth feminine, the sun masculine and the moon feminine, when in fact what they were doing was observing and articulating a givenness.
