Our Sex
At the end of the scene, Celia is angry at Rosalind for criticizing women so harshly. Celia exclaims …
You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate. We must have your doublet and hose plucked over your head, and show the world what the bird hath done to her own nest. (172-74)
Celia is stating that if Rosalind were exposed as a woman (not wearing the clothes of a man), the world would be shocked. Celia uses the metaphor of a mother bird destroying its own nest: Rosalind has destroyed womanhood. Obviously, Celia is exaggerating. Yet, Celia is right in pointing out that Rosalind is a traitor to the cause of womanhood. Rosalind has used every complaint and stereotype found in the long tradition of anti-feminist literature.
Rosalind admits that she overstated or exaggerated the faults of women, but she could not help it because she is so deeply and so madly in love with Orlando. Her own emotions make her crazy, and she cannot act rationally in his presence.
Rosalind asserts that only the mad god Cupid can rightfully judge how deeply she is in love: