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so that even after my right arm got back on the job my left was still a very able second in command. The situation is much the same here.

Dr. Sperry did not "create" two personalities or one new one. All he created by his surgery was the opportunity for the recessive side to get out from under the dominance of the other side and to live its own life, have its own experiences and to learn from them so that it could make future judge- ments--in short so that an individual, new personal- ity could grow.

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Again this has little to do with TV and is mere- ly reaching into a fascinating and little known field in the forefront of current research for a rather dramatic phenomenon to build the case for "Nature". The untrained (in the field of neurology and biology) reader can be and probably is impressed with this sort of thing. Since he is not in a position to question or evaluate it, he is likely to take it as gospel. But again what has it to do with TV and the "girl within"? In my opinion nothing. It is again an observed fact but since Sheila desperately looks for scientific support for the "Nature" position she is building that position from bits and pieces of unrelated fact in the hope that somehow they will hang together and "prove" something.

7) Paragraph 7 provides just one more example of the crying need for good communication on the subject of sex and gender. TVism has nothing to do with FEMALE- NESS. We simply are not female an individual who has ovaries, produces eggs and not sperm and has the necessary auxilliary structures, glands, attitudes, etc. to bring about the development of an offspring. To talk about the "girl within" as being in a "fem- ale pattern of cells" is completely ridiculous. The "girl within" is just that--a GIRL, a gender word, a pattern of behaviour, symbolism and value generally, and most perfectly, manifested by a fe- male but not necessarily so. "She" has her "resi-

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