Dating and Power

I haven't read the book myself, but I came across this quote on a friend's blog. Vincent spent 18 months disguised as a man: she dated women (she's a lesbian), worked a high-pressure sales job, went on a men's retreat, and joined an all-male bowling league.

Dating women as a man was a lesson in female power... I saw my own sex from the other side, and I disliked women irrationally for a while because of it. I disliked their superiority, their accusatory smiles, their entitlement to choose or dash me with a fingertip, an execution so lazy, so effortless, it made the defeats and the successes unbearably humiliating. Typical male power feels by comparison a blunt instrument, its salvos and field strategies laughably remedial next to the damage a woman can do with a single cutting word: "no."

Sex is most powerful in the mind, and to men, in the mind, women have a lot of power, not only to arouse, but to give worth, self-worth, meaning, initiation, sustenance, everything.

- Norah Vincent, writing about her experiences as an undercover man in Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back

Thoughts? How true is this?