Dudes and Dicks

We can generally say that Dicks and Dudes have oppositely-oriented value systems; indeed they are often enemies. But because the Dick Structure so firmly entrenches our world, and because Dudes operate on all different levels of self- and social awareness, we can witness a wide variety of interminglements between Dude and Dick phenomena: in hybrid personas, in gentle refusal or rabidly reactionary stances, and in Dude’s subtle or not-so-subtle co-option of Dick-type structures and techniques of power manifestation.8