but little in his practice for under the aegis of the Church many a war has been fought, many an inquisition carried out and many a heretic scourged. Violence, force and death were dondoned by the church because the church was a masculine institution too and denied in practice what it honored in the teachings of Christ.

Man (the male) today remains so afraid of his own gentleness, compassion, love, emotion, passivity, variability, tenderness, concern, in short of all attitudes that seem opposed to the current concept of masculinity that he denies them at every turn and the world is still full of assassins and other violent people. All TVs sometime in their lives, and some TVs all their lives are guilty of the denial of their emergent femininity to the extent of over-compensating on the masculine level. Why were so many of us athletes in college, why have so many chosen active aggressive occupations, why are so many of us competitive in our personal sports such as golf, bowling, swimming, etc.? Why are most of us terrified to allow others to find out that we have a feminine side to our natures. Because few of us have the guts to face the real essence of our own and other human lives that of love, compassion, tenderness and concern lest we be thought of as effeminate. We crush out the finest part of ourselves because we don't have the guts to stand up for what in our inner selves we know is fine, good and admirable.

What is the result in the world? The continued domination of the masculine ethic of force and violence, of solving problems with wars, pistols or fists instead of with the head and the heart. TVs should take some pride in that regardless of what made them TVs they have had to face up to varying degrees of awareness that there is a feminine side to their character. It is too bad that we are forced to use words like masculine and feminine since they have overtones of male and female and subconsiciously arouse sexual anxieties and insecurities but there seem to be no others. Perhaps we might characterize these sides as the ASD (Active - Strong -

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