This chapter is an account of the either-or attitude and its ensuing violence, and it
proposes possible ways of dealing with binaries in a non-violent way. It is inspired by
common yet disquieting reductionist habits evident in everyday life that lock people into a
binary gender system, but even more so by the tendency of science to create binary analytic
tools like sex/gender or nature/nurture, which reproduce potentially violent disjunctive
attitudes at the level of theory. However, there is a third element to reality and its
conceptualization: the imaginary realm. The ways in which different art forms deal with
irruptions of the gender binary offer interesting insights into the challenges of modern life and
art. For the ancient Hermaphrodite is a lie! Violence and annihilation are not only real or
symbolic, they are also manifest in the arts, sometimes silently and invisibly.