They do not discuss opinions: they exchange confidences and recipes; they join together to create a kind of counter universe whose values outweigh male values; when they meet, they find the strength to shake off their chains; they negate male sexualdomination by confiding their frigidity to each other and cynically deriding the appetites or the clumsiness of their males; they also contest with irony the moral and intellectual superiority of their husbands and men in general.