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blithely ignores the fact that one woman out of every ten is the sole support of a household in the United States and that about 40% of the professional women in America are single, only 33% are married and a good 23% are widowed, divorced or separated, Male discrimination against woman has no valid excuse ex- cept that of fear. Hence man's interest in keeping woman as a second class citizen (economically speak- ing), a position which she is rapidly doing away with. The revolt of this majority against a minority is possibly well exemplified in today's fashions... the pants suit, the masculine looking hats, the boots, the boyish pose of today's model, her independence on the dance floor where the man is not even allowed to touch his partner...are all her way of saying: I do as I please...I invade your most precious symbol of masculinity and there is nothing you can do about it.

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And speaking of pants...here we go again. Round number 2! Amazing! Some TVia readers did respond to my persistent request for a written reaction that could be used as material (fodder) in this column. My most delighted thanks to "Aunty Kay" of Michigan and Charlene of Wisconsin... They both disagree with me as to the looks of a TV in slacks or bathing suit. Charlene says 11 a girl is always a girl no matter what she has on or what she is doing. I also believe that a TV must feel like a girl to look like one... Susanna says: as to the first statement I have no quarrel, sure a girl is always a girl but...there are things a girl wears and things a girl does that make her look like the very devil. My argument is that a TV should not equate himself with the ugly things a girl wears or the messy things she may do. If we accept your statement literally then because many girls do not wear make-up so TV's should not wear make-up...many girls do not comb their hair, we shouldn't either...and so on...As to Charlene's second point I see there only a half-truth. Just feeling like a girl does not make you look like one. If that were enough, there are a good many TV's who