perform and to me it really makes little difference

what means are used to achieve that end. This "femme- emphasis" if you please, is one means we are trying but there are others.'

It is not by accident that those who have most successfully met the challenge of accepting their full personality are to be found among the members of FPE. It was planned that way. This is not to say that there are not individuals who are self accepting and who are not members of FPE, but it does mean that those who have decided to join have been those who have either already made great progress in the direction of accept- ing their whole self or who have become aware of the desire to arrive at that state.

It takes a little doing to get to the stage of develop- ment where one feels that he wants to take this step. Many have written and said that they would like to join FPE but felt that they "were not quite ready for it yet". Then some months or a year later they have felt that they had progressed far enough and that they were "ready" and have joined.

So the burden of this editorial is that generally speaking those who have poked fun at the idea of FPE and of femme terms etc. have been those who didn't see what the purpose was--that of creating a proper feminine atmosphere in which the individual was encouraged to feel that his feminine side was wanted, accepted and encouraged by others, and in which he could feel "at home", or they were individuals of more limited out- look to begin with and thus unable to understand and accept either the basic premise or the routes to its a- chievement.

As others have pointed out there are two general kinds of males interested in cross dressing. Those who have a feeling for the feminine gender role, and those who are fixated on the fetishistic, erotic level where the clothes simply serve to stimulate and satisfy the masculine personality and do nothing to unlock, release or aid in the development of a feminine personality. This is too bad since there is a feminine side to all of us even if it is unrecognized or denied.

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