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“That has been part of the problem.” Heloïse took up the thread. “We’ve concentrated all the warm, kind, nurturing impulses into one political body, leaving the other Hives, especially their leadership, dominated by …” What was that little hesitation, Heloïse? Did you almost say ‘the masculine’? “… ​those who tend to think first of advancing self and self-interest, or seeing things as zero sum, rather than advancing all interests by prioritizing the co-nurturing of everyone.”