This paper intends to critically examine the separatist impulse that motivates second-generation feminists, its articulation through inverted sexism and terrorism, its strengths and the limitations incumbent upon such an approach. Moving beyond the third approach, as proposed by Julia Kristeva, the paper posits a fourth attitude of focusing on the complementarity between the sexes. It argues that since both men and women are constructs and that since both are in a way oppressed by patriarchy, there is a need to move beyond an exclusionary, separatist impulse towards forming solidarities across gender, class, race, ethnicity, caste and other differences that merely divide the body politic.