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The other is in low "practical" shoes with a neat, clean and "practical" dress, withhair merely neatly combed and little or no makeup or jewelry. It takes no brains at all to know which he will ask for a date. When dating has gone on long enough he pops the question (everything else being equal), She still has the right to say yes or no, but if he is at all acceptable and has good prospects she says yes. But the point is that HE selected HER and did so because of her appearance in just the same way that in lower cultures and lower animals the female selected, that is--accepted, the male because of his appearance because it betokened biological superiority. Nowadays the girl in the height

of fashion gets selected for social superiority although she may be from very inferior stock biologically. Thus have customs and clothing interfered with biological se- lection and the propagation of the best stock.

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This got us off of the track somewhat in showing that the urge toward self adornment in the male has some deep biological roots. The male has been deprived of this right and it has been taken over by the females. When a male appropriates clothing, makeup, jewelry, etc. from the fe- male he does so to express a portion of his personality that otherwise lies hidden and frustrated beneath the weight of social customs and restrictions. Thus point (1) of the basic motivations in TVism. this point must not be taken as a cause alone however, it is just one of the forces (2) THE NEED TO ACQUIRE VIRTUE AND EXPERIENCE BEAUTY: Any- one who stops to think about it knows that basically women are no better than men. There are beautiful ones and ugly ones and all shades in between; there are tall ones and short ones, fat ones and thin ones; there are mean, vicious dirty, crude, filthy and drunken ones, and there are loving, kind, considerate, angelic and self sacrificing ones. But all of these words apply as well to men as to women. In short they describe individuals, not the sexes.

However, what we "know" about something and what we "feel" about it are very frequently completely out of step with each other. In our culture we have made the female