Of course, it is a metaphor about getting the best out of two conflicting situations. Like if you were a woman who also had all the benefits of being a man. It’s the men’s world and the women’s world, and you get the best of both of them!
But you don’t want that. You want to imagine some alternate world out there in the multiverse. It is only one world in addition to ours.
So we have this world and some alternate shadow world that is somehow subtly different—or perhaps more than subtly different because it wouldn’t really matter if we had the best of both unless the other was significantly different.
So we have a significantly different world out there—and the amazing thing is that it is quite different no matter what measure you make of it. It has to be, or having the best of both worlds wouldn’t mean anything.
So the other world is very different in all measures we are interested in. If this is a man’s world, that is a woman’s world. If this is a child’s world, the other one is an adult’s world. Of course, the obverse is true, as well. Which is another strange thing about both worlds: they both have both worlds in them.
This is a man’s world and a woman’s world, And on every other measure, this is both worlds. So there is no alternate world out there. The alternate world is right here, under our feet, where it always has been.
Sorry to bust your bubble….... NOT!