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

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

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

Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.