Myra is the bitch goddess she proclaims herself to be, a symbolic embodiment of the new woman, larger than life and twice as deadly. The fact that she is a transsexual only makes her symbolic power the stronger because she can be seen to have chosen womanhood. Other characters include Letitia Van Allen, yesterday's nymphomaniac, a self-directed woman but one living in the past and only fooling herself that she is using men, and Buck Loner, the ineffectual remnant of male supremacy. Rusty and Mary-Ann rep resent the misguided values of the past thoughtlessly perpetuated by the younger generation. Myra puts a stop to this. She abuses Rusty with a dildo, turning him first into a sadist (Letitia Van Allen winds up in a full body cast) and then into a homosexual, and she seduces Mary-Ann into a lesbian affair.

Of course, when Myra turns back into Myron...