In short Mr. Brenton looks the modern male right in the face and tells him off but good. Have you happened to reflect on the rash of commercials and advertisements that reflect male insecurity. "Try

it if you are MAN enough", or a "Man's beer" (or cigarette or car or whatever) "man's country" and all that sort of thing. It is evident that the con- temporary man is in a pretty bad way. True he doesn't know he's in a bad way (tho the statistics on heart disease, ulcer, colitis, lung cancer etc. should be pretty good indicators). But he is psychologically

as well as physiologically in a bad way. He lives in constant fear that he is not masculine enough which he equates with being male. His security in his own image of himself teeters on the brink all the time. He must at all costs conform to the soci- ally accepted stereotypes of masculinity. His deep fear of failure to do this breeds the anxiety refer- ed to earlier and this in turn to the phsiological conditions just mentioned. His actual failure is enough to destroy him, not physically but in his own sense of identity and worth.

It is on this note that I think TVs who have managed to survive and overcome their guilt have made a big step. True the orthodox, conservative, status-quo society does not understand or accept TV but I'm talking about the person himself. Since the greatest threat to masculine security from childhood on up is the accusation of sissyness or being like a woman (as though that was the worst thing in the world), it follows that it is the thing to be avoided at all costs. When, therefore, a TV finally admits to himself--and even more so when he admits to others- that he has a feminine side, enjoys NOT being mas- culine on occasion, takes a femmename and generally accepts himself, he has overcome the greatest threat to his internal security, his identity of himself as a total human being and his peace of mind. In this sense TV is a "good thing". Not just because it is satisfying it itself but because it has been the means of conquering one of the main problems of mas- culine life. Such an "adjusted" TV is able there-

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