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As most of you know from past editorials I'm into the Womens Lib thing. In the course of my reading on the subject I have learned much more about what being a woman really is in our society than was en- compassed in Charles' masculine view of women. Being anywhere is much more enlightening and educational than reading about it or looking at pictures. So naturally being in the womans world has given me a lot of new perspectives. Many of these have little bearing on FPs. But on the other hand some of them are of profound importance.

The other day I came across a new paper back titled, "Masculine/ Feminine Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women" by Betty and Theodore Rozack. — Harper Colophon Books New York 1969. While I recommend the whole book to you all, I am going to borrow a few lines from the preface to this book to share with you.

At this point and before you read further organize your mind out of the usual femme-oriented frame within which you generally read TVia. Get back into your brothers mind and then try to be objective about the man- woman relationships in this world. Read the following carefully, savor each sentence and read it slowly. When you have finished this quotation go back and read it again because you will not have gotten all the sig- nificance the first time through. Reflect on it afterward and measure its meanings up against your own life, indoctrinations, attitudes and activi- ties. Go a step further and see it through the eyes of your men friends. Then switch over and read it as a woman, see it through the eyes of your wife or girl friend as well as your own femmeself. Personally I have

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