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in the end only apply to sensitive, artistic and percep- tive individuals of a high psychological potential. Look then how easily this answers the question with which he chooses to debunk childhood conditioning and latent factors Think also how interrelated are the words Latent and Potential. Question #1, page 54: Boys living through conditions one or more of seven are, to quote the Ed. on the bottom of pg. 717- Those without a high psychologic potential and without the fertile ground in which these conditions could grow...TVism lacked fertilization (psychopotential) and soil (perceptive qualities).
Question #2 pg. 54: The answer here requires me to say that in my opinion many TVs simply cannot recall or pinpoint conditions of childhood. In my view parts of the 5 motives listed, and a lot more motivations, are what I choose to call THREADS OF ENTHUSIASM ABOUT THINGS FEMININE SEEN IN THE IMPORTANT FEMALES IN THE EARLIEST LIFE OF EVERY BOY. The "sensitive, artistic, and perceptive" boys men- tioned on pg. 71 are capable of picking up these threads right from the beginning and in cases supressing them until later or having them be influencial all thru adolescence.
The Editor sets up highly sensitive individuals of high psychological potential, then (1) has a dramatic and often late experience "trigger off" TVism or (2) has the same individual "key in" his perceptive qualities with a revelation about female attire as in what I find a very ambiguous paragraph on pg. 73 top. "Some sort of contact on a non-sexual level" but no explanation as to why the dis-orientation to the adolescent's concepts of approach- ing manhood..
I just must point out parts of my own ideology to throw light on the Editor's faults. I'll go next to pg. 56. I hold with society---I say it is the TV who says the attributes associated with the sexes are arbitrary, For I hold these concepts of the roles each sex is supposed to fulfill are sovereign, natural, and essential in a pat- riarchal culture...and I say it is the TV who VIOLATES THE DICIPLINE OF CLOTHING AND IDENTITY and moreover stands