female homosexuality was of considerable less impor- tance than that of the male it would seem out of place that the proscription of the female should have the place of prominance. It is more likely, it seems to me that the proscription referred to was not related to homosexuality at all. In most primitive tribes and among the Hebrews even down to today, the male is much more important than the female in almost all ways. Thus the attempt by a female to take on or ad- opt any of the priveleges or prerequisites of masculin- ity might well be a condiserable transgression in itself and one which would need to be set forth specifically along with all the rest of the laws promulgated in this section of Deuteronomy. A female masquerading as a man and entering where she should not be or adopting the rights and privileges of the male would certainly be something that needed proscription. Ringing the male in on the proscription when it is considered in this light probably was merely a way of keeping the score even--what she mustn't do he mustn't either-- but more than that it would be debasing for the lordly male in that type of culture to lower himself to put- ting on female attire. Something like a Colonel in the Army taking off his officers bars, throwing away his "scrambled egg" hat and eating in the private' mess.

No, I think TVs need have no concern about this biblical injunction because it certainly wasn't aimed at TVs as we are thinking of them, it probably was not even aimed at homosexual cross dressing. It almost surely was simply aimed at keeping woman in her place and man in his--several cuts higher on the scale of things. On top of this, when you consider the quotation from St. Thomas' Gospal as given on the bottom of the inside front cover of TVia, and other biblical and met- aphysical statements and conceptions, the idea of a blending of masculine and feminine characteristics in one more complete totality is vastly more important than the clothes an individual wears. The clothes only serve as symbols of this and as a means of psy- chically accomplishing this feat which in most cases is otherwise difficult or impossible.

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