Virgin Views

Let's Do Make Waves

by Virginia

Practically everybody has heard the story to which the tag line is the plea "Don't Make Waves"! I'd like to turn it around and urge you TO make waves. Consider what happens when you throw a pebble into the center of a quiet pool. An initial splash occurs followed by an ever expanding series of concentric waves radiating out from the point of impact and going to the furthest reaches of the pool. True when they finally reach the shore they are tiny compared to their original size, but they do create some disturb- ance of the otherwise quiet waters far removed from the original splash.

If we want society to know that we exist, to re- alize that Femmepersonation is something different from homosexuality, to take a somewhat more understand - ing and acceptant point of view towards us, and if we want doctors, ministers, counselors, police, judges, army and navy intelligence, postal inspectors and other people in authority to become educated on this field we have to do something about it. Whenever you succeed in enlightening even one person on the subject you make a splash. That person's subsequent conver- sations and comments to others is the resulting wave. The second person's talking with a third represents the ever widening circle of waves. Although the in- tensity of understanding drops off in strength rather rapidly just as radio waves and water waves are atten- uated as they move, what is left is greater than it was before. We have a long way to go but the Chinese have a saying that "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." So each of us that makes a splash starts the wave going and if enough waves get going general knowledge begins to

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