moment, and so will we FPs. So since we both have a certain need to express our other side, so we should recognize and support the women in their fight to regain theirs.

I hope it is clear that the fight of women for their rights is not simply the opposite of our fight. It isn't. Remember that if you cut an orange in half from stem to navel you have two equal halves each of which might be said to seek the other in order to reconstitute a complete orange. But take another identical orange and cut it equatorially, that is horizontally, half way between the stem and the navel. Do you not again have two equal halves of an orange? Wouldn't they too have to be put together again to constitute a whole orange? But you could not say that the halves resulting from the two cuts were identical could you? Thus it is with the battle for Women's Liberation and that for the FPs liberation. Each group seeks in its own way to regain its rights in that territory from which it has been excluded by the concept of male superiority.

YOU can do something about it! As a man get off of your high horse of superiority and as a girl (in spirit at least) help the other girls — the GGs in their fight. Oh I know, you do not feel superior as a person and you are not oppressing women as a person. Neither was nor did Charles. Yet if you carefully and critically examine a great many of the patterns of your behavior, of the attitudes of mind and concepts of social rightness and wrongness which you continually, automatically and unthinkingly express and react with, you will find, if you are honest about it, that they are tainted with male chauvinism — male superiority. It isn't your fault really, they have been bred into you by 25,000 or more years of recent human development. But their ancient lineage does not make them right, it only makes it more of a shame that they haven't been examined and modified before. Do it! Do it NOW! And do it honestly! Even an FP can help make it a better world and do it openly, but changing the world always starts with changing you.

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(Note: It should be pointed out that Women's Liberation is both the name of a movement and also of a particular group within that move- ment. The 'Women's Lib" group is a quite radical and activist bunch of girls and unhappily they get most of the radio, TV and newspaper publicity which is not all the best. So when I have used the term above I am referring to the movement not to this group. I again urge any who get the nessage, to join N.O.W. under either name and at least thereby give numerical and financial support to the organization. It is a much more middle-of-the-road group and has older people in it than some of the young activist groups you've heard of.)

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