Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial. - Germaine Greer

...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others.

The disastrous
step to marriage as the end of the story, and the assumption
of ‘living happily ever after’ had not yet been taken. One of the most
significant apologists of marriage as a way of life and a road to salvation
was Shakespeare. It is still to be proved how much we owe
of what is good in the ideal of exclusive love and cohabitation to
Shakespeare, but one thing is clear — he was as much concerned in
his newfangled comedies to clear away the detritus of romance,
ritual, perversity and obsession as he was to achieve happy endings,
and many of the difficulties in his plays are resolved when we can
discern this principle at work. Transvestism is a frequently discussed
Shakespearean motif, but it is rarely considered as a mode of revelation
as well as a convention productive of the occasional frisson.