shiny shoes but still tightly and fearfully clutching her old suitcase packed full of personal and psychological problems which she has brought with her from her former life as a man. Your SELF, such as it may be, you can't run away from, it goes with your body wherever you take it.

If, in consideration of all your problems as a man, you are motivated to escape from them and you get the idea that as a female, and "therefore" a woman, you will be faced with less exacting requirements and a less demanding existance, you are, generally speaking, correct. But what you can't see because you have never been in a position where you could look at them, is that there is a whole set of problems related to this woman- female lifestyle just as there is in the man-male lifestyle, and they will all be new to you. You will have to learn to cope with them as they come up and your previous experience will not be much help to you.

What I'm trying to say is that over and over again we see and hear from people who obviously have a lot of personal problems and who seek escape from them by running away from masculinity and its require- ments which they feel unable to fulfill. They see woman's land as an easy place, a land of milk and honey because they see it not as it looks to those who live there, but as they imagine it to be from where they sit - in mas- culine land. They are primarily concerned about "getting away" from where they are and they live in a kind of vague hope that where they hope to go everything will be rosy. If they make it to the other side they are in for terrible disappointments and frustrations because they don't as yet understand the rules of life in woman's land, they aren't fitted by training and experience for it and they will be forever burdened with that suitcase full of old personal internal problems that they have always had and which were not and could not be left behind. These people then make up the category of Fugitives. How sad it is to watch and talk to them and how discouraging to try to get them to be more realistic and to tackle and solve some of those problems where they stand so that they could, at some future time, make the trip (if indeed they still wanted to) unencumbered with old problems and more capable of facing and coping with the new ones that will present themselves in the new world.

What then of the Emigrants? One can leave his native land possibly as a fugitive to escape from some real or fanciful oppression with the main idea being to get away. But people can also say to themselves, “Well, life isn't too bad here but I have rather reached the limitations of my growth and experience here and I look forward with fascination, curiosity and interest to the new world and all that it holds for me in expansion and

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