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exagerated, overdone. I've discovered that by going way out with a position, one does stimulate one's readers and it forces them into a reaction. But let's hear some more from our Brazilian Rita. "I wonder --she says--if other readers feel the same way, but I get a little tired of too prolonged and searching arguments about TV as a problem, trying to find out why and how. I guess one who has found out that he is a TV rather likes to read and hear how to live best with it. The cover stories are a fine way and your articles the next best. (Gee thanks!) The cover story, because in it I can see how someone does it with different dresses, shoes, make-up, so to say: the technical aspect of TV. And as a relatively un- certain newcomer, this is grand to see."

I can sympathize with Rita when she gets a bit tired of too much exploratory activity into the why of TVism. Sure it's more exciting to read about somebody's real adventures and mis-adventures. Still since TVism is a human phenomenon, it will always be subjected to scrutiny. The more we dig into it, the

better we'll be able to cope with it.

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Rita also disagrees with me with regard to my advice to TV's "don't get married!" She says: "In issue 43 you had an impressive list of failures of TV marriages. Don't you think that this happens just as well with husbands that are totally dedicated to fishing, baseball or what have you and where their wives can't or won't tolerate the extent their hobby takes? Is it not basic in any marriage that the main problem is the adjustment of two personalities with different backgrounds and experiences, to mould into a new unity? I can't quite accept your argument that TV is outside these problems and much harder to lick than all the others. I would feel that any

hobby that gets the husband in its grip makes it much harder to live together if the wife can't share the excitement. I imagine that a man who takes up cooking and achieves a certain perfection in it, will create just as much difficulties for his wife

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