They Weren't Crazy. They Were

It May Be That A Second Wave Of The Sexual Revolution Might At Last Accomplish Its Aim Of Freeing Half The Race From Its Immemorial Subordination--and In The Process Bring Us All A Great Deal Closer To Humanity. It May Be That We Shall Even Be Able To Retire Sex From The Harsh Realities Of Politics, But Not Until We Have Created A World We Can Bear Out Of The Desert We Inhabit.

In Many Patriarchies, Language, As Well As Cultural Tradition, Reserve The Human Condition For The Male. With The Indo-european Languages This Is A Nearly Inescapable Habit Of Mind, For Despite All The Customary Pretense That 'man' And 'humanity' Are Terms Which Apply Equally To Both Sexes, The Fact Is Hardly Obscured That In Practice, General Application Favors The Male Far More Often Than The Female As Referent, Or Even Sole Referent, For Such Designations.

A Revolution Is Not The Overturning Of A Cart, A Reshuffling In The Cards Of State. It Is A Process, A Swelling, A New Growth In The Race. If It Is Real, Not Simply A Trauma, It Is Another Ring In The Tree Of History, Layer Upon Layer Of Invisible Tissue Composing The Evidence Of A Circle.

A Sexual Revolution Begins With The Emancipation Of Women, Who Are The Chief Victims Of Patriarchy, And Also With The Ending Of Homosexual Oppression.

Homosexuality Was Invented By A Straight World Dealing With Its Own Bisexuality.