Most ecofeminists reject dichotomies and hierarchies as alien to the natural world – nature is interconnections.

Through dualism, those living in patriarchies tend to view the world in terms of opposites, beginning with male and female, and extending to a plethora of other contrived divisions, such as white/other races, human/animal, culture/nature, and reason/emotion.

In Western patriarchal culture, both women and nonhuman nature have been devalued alongside their assumed opposites--men and civilization/culture.

Simplistic dualisms, because they are untenable, impede our ability to relate to the world around us--including one another.