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ive.

No reciprocity is involves since girls just wear male attire and feel satisfied...but TVs must go all out and mas- querade, thus protesting their role.

((I can't help interjecting at this point that society is permissive of the females activity and repressive of the male's. One wonders just how far a transvestic male would go if society were as permissive toward him as toward her. I feel that the need for the complete masquerade lies exact- ly in the fact that that is the only way of "getting away" with it---its an all or none affair. Virginia)))

Then

Now motive #2 on pg. 62: The fact is our patriarchal system exalts woman s virtuous qualities and this is the reason man can and should marry them, unite with them. he can enjoy qualities in #1 motive by virtue of enjoying them on her and through her. Again a disharmony exists in TVs that arrests this union or MAKES HIM GO BEYOND IT, WISHING THESE FOR HIMSELF.

To show a predisposition for wanting these qualities does not in my view exonerate the TV from not conforming to what is expected of men. TRANSVESTISM IS A CONTEST WITH PATRIARCHALITY and an exaggeration of the values of feminine qualities by adoration of which the TV is armed with a delusion with which he fights this battle and gropes for the forbidden fruit (pg. 78)

The Editor's motive #4 is so very tenuous that it pin- points to me the drift off into hallucinations that the TV finally succumbs to. Realizing the anxiety a masquerade entails hardly seems a release from "pressure" rather its an added burden. This whole silly business of another per- sonality, a second "female self" is in my estimation prop- aganda to support the defiance of convention the TV expresses finally culminating in what I term Social Schizophrenia-- not pathological but social--- since both split personal- ities know of each other, make there own beds as it were,

being aware of the environment. The hallucination becomes so real, the masquerade so complete, expecially as both. "persons" integrate into society and become distinct indi- viduals with identities all their own, that only schizo-