The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

The personal is political.

The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

To be worshiped is not freedom.

The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.