Lysistrata - The War Between the Sexes

In Lysistrata, I found the theme of "the war of the sexes" to be quite interesting. This was primarily because the theme involves the term "battle" which, ironically, the females in the play are trying to rid Greece of; the women "battle" the men in order to end the battles being waged by men on each other. I also find irony in the way the women and men nearly have a gender-role-reversal. The women in the play storm the Acropolis, a building of high importance to the Greeks, and hold themselves prisoner to the men. This is a very traditionally masculine thing to do, capture a building in protest. Not only do the women act more masculine, but the men act in a more "traditionally" (and by traditionally I mean stereotyped) feminine way, by begging for the abstinence to end and surrendering to peace in the end. So, in reality, the "battle of sexes" is between the more masculine females and more feminine men, with everyone winning in the end (no more war and much sex).