thing else" which we call femininity, just as it is hard to describe what we feel when we are watching a dazzling sunset or listening to a hypnotic melody. I will not attempt here to define the feminine, but no TV can deny that one cannot discard femininity and still be a TV.

Another argument I've heard from some of my friends is that there is no such thing as feminine activity, gestures, posture, etc..." They say that the division between the masculine and the feminine is an arbitrary definition inasmuch as the concept of femininity with its attached occupations, attire, etc, vary from culture to culture and from geographic area to geographic area. They use this argument- however much percentage of validity it may have--because they are just plain lazy. Too lazy to take the trouble of learning those things which girls have been taught through an entire lifetime, things which girls learn through imitation of their older sisters, mothers, girl- friends and aunts, things which they have been practicing and rehear- sing year in and year out until they have become naturally theirs, in- trinsic parts of their personalities. Those thousand and one details

which make a girl a lady, which differentiates their behaviour from that of their brothers, tidbits of femininity which form the wide mo- saic which a TV invades and tries to assimilate. One must certainly be blind not to see that feminine behaviour is different from mascul- ine behaviour. Take the case of a girl who, in her early teens, is called a "tomboy' she climbs trees, goes hunting with a slingshot, jumps into gang fights and will even use her fists if necessary. Soc- iety tags her as a tomboy... why? Because she is engaging in attitud- es which society (our society) has assigned to boys. And society will force her to quit all of that, "stop behaving like a boy", before she can begin to learn to be a lady. The TV's case is somewhat similar. Before we can aspire to project a feminine personality we simply have to get rid of the "tomboy" in us, not kill him, but put him aside. Lock him in the closet where his clothes are so he won't interfere in the process of feminine expression. Unless we lock him up, he'll be interfering in our job constantly..he'll be insisting on our climbing trees and roughing it up, when we should be trying to be soft, delicate and tender. Some TV's snort at such statements and will say: "Why should I abstain from climbing trees or chewing tobacco if I feel like Phooey! it, just because I'm wearing a dress? - These in my op- inion--are pitiful cases. They have given up without even trying. They have missed the whole point--and joy--of being a TV. Are they perhaps afraid of losing their masculinity?

Impossible, I say. A lifetime of masculinity has carved perman- ent patterns of thought and behaviour that no amount of feminine

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