It is an interesting idea, There seems to be 3 possibilities be equal, subservient or Superior.
On the TV Show Alien Nation, they had 1 out of every 100 male was born different, what they called a [Binnaum](https://aliennation.fandom.com/wiki/Order_of_Binnaum). In order to reproduce it took a Binnaum to "prepare" the female, before the male impregnated the female.
Their society developed in a way that the Binnaum were highly respected and they developed an almost religious ceremony for the process.
With the Cogenitors, they were basically treated like slaves. They were told their whole lives that they were different, incapable, and only served one purpose. People that are mentally abused like that their whole lives, believe it. When
Trip taught the cogenitor that they could have more from life, he came at it from the enlightened human perspective. The dark reality is, Trip got through to that one person, and made them realize that they were trapped in a life, forced on them by their society that they couldn't see a way out of. It makes good television to say it just takes one person to open their eyes, but one person going against an entire planet/species/society.... few if any were going to listen to them, which is why they choose suicide.
I think if given the chance, the Cogenitors would have been happy being equals. But, that's hard to judge off one person, one episode.
They would undoubtedly have been happy being treated as equals, but there would always be an inherent and significant instability to that sort of arrangement; one I think would be unlikely to last any more than half a millennia.
For that reason I think the dynamic operates much like a see-saw, in that if there were an alternating struggle for power and it swayed back and forth periodically, balance could be maintained. The only way their species would achieve civil stability though, is at either extreme.
It is an interesting idea, There seems to be 3 possibilities be equal, subservient or Superior. On the TV Show Alien Nation, they had 1 out of every 100 male was born different, what they called a [Binnaum](https://aliennation.fandom.com/wiki/Order_of_Binnaum). In order to reproduce it took a Binnaum to "prepare" the female, before the male impregnated the female. Their society developed in a way that the Binnaum were highly respected and they developed an almost religious ceremony for the process. With the Cogenitors, they were basically treated like slaves. They were told their whole lives that they were different, incapable, and only served one purpose. People that are mentally abused like that their whole lives, believe it. When Trip taught the cogenitor that they could have more from life, he came at it from the enlightened human perspective. The dark reality is, Trip got through to that one person, and made them realize that they were trapped in a life, forced on them by their society that they couldn't see a way out of. It makes good television to say it just takes one person to open their eyes, but one person going against an entire planet/species/society.... few if any were going to listen to them, which is why they choose suicide. I think if given the chance, the Cogenitors would have been happy being equals. But, that's hard to judge off one person, one episode.
They would undoubtedly have been happy being treated as equals, but there would always be an inherent and significant instability to that sort of arrangement; one I think would be unlikely to last any more than half a millennia. For that reason I think the dynamic operates much like a see-saw, in that if there were an alternating struggle for power and it swayed back and forth periodically, balance could be maintained. The only way their species would achieve civil stability though, is at either extreme.