be trespassing and veering away from the main point: i.e. the con- clusion: MAN-IN-DRESS-EVIL.

The first thing to do is to disassociate the elements of these false premises. We have to look around for tools, weapons, and here is where "semantics" comes in. The old vocabulary is perhaps too tainted with associations and the psychologists and MD's are large- ly to blame for this situation. It is up to us, as well as to them, to look around and find new terms which will allow us to start from a scratch, with a clean slate. Terms which will spell out more clearly what we are. This, to me, is the basic reason back of TVia's effort to erase old words and come up with new ones.

Let us not however think that new names will by themselves solve our problem. The most important weapon at our disposal will always be the emotional impact our BEHAVIOUR will have upon others. This emotional impact will depend in good measure upon our own per- sonality: "the girl-within" (as I like to think of us). If we are nice, likeable, pleasant, thoughtful, generous, friendly and discreet--if we are intelligent enough to draw a line of "peaceful co-existance"--then we'll find that we've won half the battle. That's an important seed we always plant on others. Do we have the capacity to make others "like" us? Do they find our company "pleasant"? Do we radiate joy, happiness? These elements are con- tagious, catchy. They are the front line of our initial impact upon others. There's the picture: new terms to introduce the subject either in conversation or in writing...pleasant, correct behaviour when exposed to others...and if it all should fail...if, despite our efforts we find ourselves ostracized, crucified, we can always go out and buy that darling frock we saw last week, in that store down town! Nothing like a new dress to regain courage, opt- imism and start anew with vigour and determination, always making sure that our stocking seams are straight and that our lipstick does not clash with our nail polish.

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I have a feeling that in the not too distant future world society will be forced to adopt a more broadminded, tolerant att- itude toward behaviour that deviates from the so called norm. surprisingly will this come about because we live in the "space age", What do rockets and the conquest of space have to do with us girls? Simply that as mankind reaches beyond the world's fron- tiers we will be confronted with many NEW facts, phenomena and perhaps "living" beings, none of which will fall into the comfor-

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