in the future attitude of the TV's wife. It will mean happiness or unhappiness for the TV husband. And what happens if any of the types discussed should appear? All the poor husbands hopes and patient explanations go down the drain. Or there'll be a case #6 as below.

CASE # 6. Who'll deliberately make a point of telling the wife that TV is crazy behaviour and that she should put a stop to her husband's "perverted desires. You think I am dreaming all this? No indeed!! I have seen it happen. I have known TV's whose entire ef- fort is spent on trying to prove to the GG's present at a social gathering that they are truly " he--men, " they proceed to act in a supermasculine way. There is a desperation in those TV's... a horrible fear of admit- ting their femininity.... and they are caught by the by the obsession to deny it, they want to make others believe that it is just a lark, a joke. They are actu- ally apologizing to the non-TV's present for having fallen into this " disgusting behaviour." How much of a hypocrit can a TV be?

Up to this point I have written only about unplea- sant traits. Let me underscore here that these are all exceptions to the rule. As the two psychologists who spent two entire days with more than 70 TV's, last Halloween can testify, good behaviour is the rule, not the exception. If it were not so, we would indeed be insane in continuing to meet new TV's and cultivating the friendship of many others. I wished however to bring up these exceptions because of the old proverb about one rotten apple spoils the whole basket," or " tell me who you associate with and I'll tell you what you are. We all know how precarious our position is in our present society, how eager public opinion is to condemn Tvism or anything that is unconventional.

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So knowing this, one does not have to be a mental giant to see how important it is for each one of us to show ourselves in the most savorable and pleasant light to others. That is why even a handful of bad examp- les such as those I have just described will hurt all of us whenever we attempt to have non-TV understanding and acceptance. Whenever we decide to leave the locked-room stage we must realize that we are taking

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