No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Cast as a mock-military aphorism, the line treats the “battle of the sexes” as a conflict that can never yield a decisive victor because attraction, intimacy, and everyday cooperation constantly blur the sides. The punchline—“fraternizing with the enemy”—reframes romance and desire as the very mechanisms that undermine any attempt at total gender antagonism. The joke also hints that gender relations are not zero-sum: even when framed competitively, they are sustained by mutual dependence and cross-identification. Its enduring appeal comes from using the language of strategy and warfare to puncture the seriousness of culture-war rhetoric about men versus women.

1) “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
2) “No one will ever win the battle of the sexes—there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.”