Which is a reversal of the old flow.

The woman is now the initiator, man the responder.

They seem to play each other's parts.

But man is purely male, playing woman's part, and woman is purely female, however manly.

The gulf between Heliogabalus, or the most womanly man on earth, and the most manly woman, is just the same as ever: just the same old gulf between the sexes.