ARTICLE

TV Cartoons

by Virginia

Those of us to whom TVism is a real part of our lives tend to think that it is a deep mysterious thing that does not rear it's head into the light of day except within people like ourselves. This is re- ally not the case. True we TVs embody the trans-gen- deral manifestation in our femmeselves when we dress but the curiosity, the intrigue, the mystery about the other sex and it's behaviour is there in all cul- tures. In primitive tribes it is manifested in var- ious kinds of rituals such as 'Couvade" wherein after a child is born the mother goes back to work in the fields but the father takes to his bed for some weeks and is waited on solicitously and made over by the women of the village. This is a manifestation of en- vy of the female's role in procreation and the males take over and act out a part of it. In other tribes during the week preceeding the puberty rites for boys the boys obtain and wear the clothes of the village girls. In our culture there is always the guy who, after a couple of drinks at a party puts on a lady's hat or a lamp shade and prances around.

"Some Like It Hot" was the highest paying comedy of all time and "Charlies Aunt" has been a perennial favorite for years. So the switching of genders and the interest in it is always just below the surface.

Many cartoons are reprinted in TRANSVESTIA that have been retitled by those submitting them so as to change the original meaning. But over the past year I have assembled a group of cartoons in which TVism provides the theme in some form in the original.

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