War of the sexes
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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“The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.” --Quentin Crisp "There are times when I wonder whether nature isn't really the one to hold responsible. It seems a lot easier to blame nature than to blame men (although blaming society runs a close second)." --Combat in the Erogenous Zone (1972) by Ingrid Bengis "George who is good to me, and whom I revile; who understands me, and whom I push off; who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me, at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood; who keeps learning the games we play as quickly as I can change the rules; who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy"--Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Illustration: Toulouse-Lautrec wearing Jane Avril's Feathered Hat and Boa (ca. 1892), photo Maurice Guibert.
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As an idiom, the war of the sexes or battle of the sexes refers to the competition, disagreements and fight for power between men and women.
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See also
- The Battle of the Sexes
- Marriage
- Love-hate relationship
- Feminism
- Female sexuality
- Male sexuality
- Pornocracy
- Sexism
- Sexual revolution
- Sexual conflict
- Masculism
- Machismo
- Misandry
- Misogyny
- Madonna-whore complex
- Domestic violence
- Rape culture
- Equalism
- Feminist Sex Wars
- Camille Paglia
- Sexual tension
- Sex strike
In fiction
- Lysistrata
- Taming of the Shrew
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- The Mother and the Whore
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Coming Apart
- Bitter Moon
- Ingmar Bergman
Music
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