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by the presence of a dominant group. Why, then, do we find so few feminine-male groups in human history? For one cause, remember that women are periodically incapacitated by their biological functions. This certainly puts them at a disadvantage, and probably led to their secondary position in primitive society. (Such a one-sided picture is rare in wild animals, but not unheard of; see black widow spiders). Whether girls' slighter build is inherent, or a genetic result of selection, is not important their smaller size has certainly been a factor in their continued inferior position. An inherent biological drive towards "motherliness" and "nest-building" has probably made it easier for them to endure domination; but it may be safely said that all the other components of femininity can be plausibly explained as the results of male influence.

So much for the past now, what about the future? The decline of masculinity started long ago, the day a pint-sized gunman reminded a bullying cowboy that "Mr. Colt made all men equal." What Colt began, Ford and Edison and their successors have about completed in making all humans equal, and there is not much of the "weaker sex" about a 100 lb. girl at the wheel of a 200 hoursepower chrome-trimmed bullet! About all big muscles are good for now is to guide some sort of ball into a highly-commercialized receptacle; the historic way of proving one's super- iority by beating up girls has lost most of its charm since some unknown fractions of the little darlings study Karate or carry switch-blade knives in their pretty purses!

Perhaps the day is coming that will see an end to attempts to legislate masculinity and femininity according to sex lines. Will that be the end of both so that all humans fall into one epicene class of Mods That seems or better, wearing Greek togas? most unlikely; as we should show, femininity in males goes far deeper than the clothes. It might even be that the feminine male will come to enjoy the freedom

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