society they have the primary responsibility for carring for the home, cooking, shopping, raising the kids, looking after their husband and being general girl friday to that great big, gorgeious (???) hunk of man that they consented to marry. But also in our society, a great many of them have to work in order to help the economic life of the family. Whereas there is an old saying that, "a woman's work is never done" (and believe me I know from personal experience now that this is true) referring just to the home and all that implies, those of us who have to help in earning the living as well as taking care of a home, husband or kids have it doubly hard.

Now what kind of bugs me about a great many of my TV acquaintances is their lack of feeling for the wife's problems. If they had half the girl within them they claim they have, they would enjoy doing some of that "woman's work" cooking, washing, ironing, shopping, vacuuming, mopping, waxing, cleaning up - even taking care of their own clothing (masculine and feminine). Helping in these areas, and others unmentioned ought to provide some real life experiences for the girl within and be a source of pride, pleasure and satisfaction to themselves as well as a big help to their wives. I suspect that much more understanding and help would be forthcoming from otherwise reluctant wives particularly those that work if more of this were done. Some TVs do just this and I think they are the ones properly termed, "Femme Personators" and "lovers of the feminine".

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But what of the rest? I see them trying to live out their non-dressed time as the typical man who takes the position that his job in life is done when he brings home a paycheck, and that anything having to do with the home (the inside of it that is, since most men take care of the lawn, shutters, fences, snow shoveling, etc. outside the house) is the wife's territory and, more to the point, her responsibility. The fact that she may be bringing home a paycheck too does not seem to enter into his calculations. True, often what she earns goes to her own or the kids needs, but if she didn't work those expenses would come out of the husband's paycheck anyway so its all the same.

Such husbands very often come home from work, drop into their favorite chair and expect to be waited on by the wife and/or children. "Honey, where's my this or that?" "Why didn't

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