Susanna

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Hi, everybody:

Here's a question to pon- der about: When does a woman show more femininity...in the presence of other women, or in the presence of men? The orig- inator of this query is Gisele ...freshly arrived from the

Old Continent where women are

GG's and men sometimes are too. Gisele maintains cnac a woman displays more femin- inity when males are around, but the situation is not reversed in the case of men. The latter, when in the company of BB's (biological boys) seem more pressed to show (and leave no doubt with regard to) their masculinity than when with GG's. Could it be asks Gisele with a gleam in her eyes that man is less secure in his role than woman is in hers? Personally I concur with Gisele and feel that this insecurity helps explain why a woman in pants is not afraid of being less of a woman, but a man in skirts normally draws upon himself the hysterical scorn of the BB's who are scared to death of having their image punctured. The man in skirts is a be- trayer of his kind--so the BB's say. It seems to me that man is always more afraid of women than viceversa. Men know that women are more resistant and hardier than men. They can withstand greater temperature extremes and are less prone to ulcers and heart attacks.