A GLOSSARY OF FEMMETERMS

As indicated in the article, "Targets, Titles and Terminol- ogy in TVia #12, it is desirable to develop our "own language". This, in some instances will set us off from other groups and therefore be helpful in the general problem of education, and in other cases will just add a bit of "fun" to the whole thing. People always get themselves in trouble when they take themselves too seriously. Femmpersonation is deeply satisfying....we all know that.... but it can also be fun, and our perspectives are always better when they are sharpened by a sense of humor. Have you ever looked at your "femmeself" in the mirror when she was all "gussied up" and actually laughed at her? Try it sometime. The whole bit really is funny, in the light of the limitations of our culture, when you stop and think about it. Moreover, it will relieve some of your guilts and fears if you can relax and look at it lightly.

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So, since our femme selves do exist, do want to "live" and are beginning to be able to do so more and more, let's create an auxilliary "femmelanguage" with which to discuss our femmelives. This seems easily done by the addition of the prefixes "femme- or "femmi-" (according to the ease of pronounciation) to ordinary words thus moving their meaning over into the feminine realm. Below are some examples just to get you started. As you begin to play this little game you will doubtless run across a number of cute new additions. Use them in letters to me and I'll try to catch them and use them back again thereby getting them known to others.

There are doubtless some straightlaced, long-haired femme- sters among us who will feel that such goings on are too adoles- cent and silly. To them I say--Come on, you spinsters, loosen up your corset strings! Then you can develop some more interest- ing curves and not be "straight" laced. Undo that bun of hair at the back of your head and brush it out till it hangs down to your waist (dont you wish you could though). Remember when you were a girl? Or were you? One of the things all of us missed

73.