Lesbian feminists were also alarmed by the amount of time and energy straight women were investing in trying to gain men’s respect, with either painfully slow or nonexistent results. In 1972, the women’s caucus of the Gay Revolution Party issued a statement in which they expressed serious concern that straight women “seem to believe that through their attempts to create ‘new men’ they will liberate themselves. Enormous amounts of female energy are expended in this process, with little effect; sexism remains the overwhelming problem in the most ‘liberated,’ ‘loving’ heterosexual situations.”
