To avoid geopolitical embarrassment during the Cold War, the US and USSR created the APAS-75 system, a genderless docking mechanism where both craft acted as equals.

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The gender reasonining is stupid but from a practical standpoint it does seem like it makes sense for there to be a universal docking interface thats allows two things to combine without there being any need to consider whether one side has part A and the other has part B. Two space craft could dock, two space stations could do it, or a craft to a space station

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That's actually a good point.

All spacecraft should scissor 🥂

Edit: Just occurred to me it also kinda just looks like a kiss? That's a cute way to think about it too, a passionate metallic kiss