Transvestia

anyone else as long as I obey the law and pay my taxes. But more than freedom from these things I sense that I am more real than ever before. Virginia has long been a truly separate personality from Charles, not only to me but to most everyone who has occasion to meet them both. But this personality was manifested in relation to other people primarily. But now I am a housewife literally. I have the job to do and I become the person who does the job. Think on that for a moment. It has become evident to me that in many ways the job to be done--and I mean "job" in the sense of the position to be occu- pied not in the sense of a task to be performed determines the nature of the person doing it.

Let me explain. I find myself doing all manner of things in MY house that any woman would do and doing them without any feeling of "now I am a woman so I must do this and I should do that" and all such artificiality. I simply find myself doing them and enjoying the doing. I stop to ask myself "Do women do these particular things in these ways be- cause they are females or because they were taught as little girls to do so? Are these feminine inter- ests, attitudes, and feelings about the house and home inherent in the woman because she is a female? If they are then how can I have the same feelings and attitudes when I am not a female? Further, if they are learned by virtue of having been a little girl at home with mother, how could I have them since I was never a little girl (worse luck)? I therefore arrived at the idea that the job, the position, the circumstance, if you will, determines the reaction. I am a housewife, Mrs. Jones is a housewife etc. and being in the job or position of housewife brings forth the appropriate response and feelings in both of us. Thus these things arise primarily out of the position a woman finds herself in and not out of her- self. Put more broadly (pun is acknowledged), a large part of femininity is a social response to a social set up (whether housewifery or just being a female in a male dominated society) rather than an