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MANNERS: If you are going to "be" a lady, learn to act like on Ladies go through doors first and wait for them to be opened or be helped from a car. If two women are out together it makes no diff- erenee who goes through first, but if one of them is a TV, that on should go first simply to avoid being placed in the masculine pos- ition.
Ladies do not rise to be introduced unless the one being in- troduced is much older. The lady is the one who offers her hand. Gentlemen are introduced to ladies, not the reverse. ▲ lady does not speak too loudly nor intensely and if she is angered she does- a't shout but shows it in more subtle, cutting ways. When in the feminine role, don't be tee intelligent in your conversation as it will attract attention. This is not because all women are unintell- igent--on the contrary, most of them are so intelligent that they realize that the conceited male wants to be the "big brain" and shies away from tee intelligent women because they offer too much competition. Therefore, the interloper in the world of women must watch his conversation. Beware of letting your supposedly buried masculine ego rise to the surface to win a point. Learn to be sec- ially passive and acquiescent--it is difficult, but necessary,
If you go out in public, don't go to odd places alone; don't be on the streets late at night, particularly poorly lighted ones. This is not only unwise frem a TV point of view, but dangerous. Don't go inte bars alone--te de se is just asking for trouble.
In short, if you wish to "join the ladies", study them and their ways and cultivate them in yourself,
SECTION V ATTITUDES AND PSYCHOLOGY
Before going into this section, there is this to be said: This article is not intended as a handbook for social integration of the TV in the sense that it may tempt him to appear in public, It does not follow that everyone who can put on a dress and lip- stick should venture out. To do so involves considerable risks and many TVs are not as feminine appearing as they'd like to be nor even as much se as they themselves may think they are, Wish- ful thinking enters the picture and may influence one to a fool-