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role and compliment them, are forced to go out in the streets with a pos- itively childlike ambition to be seen and admired. It does no good to tell these people that they couldn't pass in a combination power failure and eclipse, they simply don't care. This can easily be equated to the little girls who wear Mommie's clothes, and preen and demand their parent's admiration.

The next stage is the little girl, about 10-12 years old. Our heroine is at the stage where she is buying her own clothes, and becoming efficient enough to get the right size most of the time. While this is a more desira- ble stage, there are serious lapses to the baby stage plus the fact that the FP is so engrossed in how she looks coupled with the erotic demands of the sensations, that there is little personality development.

Next we come to the late teen age stage where our gal is quite adept, is starting to take a positive interest in styles and good grooming, and is starting to be quite the prima donna. She can probably pass by now and has probably emerged somewhat socially as well. At this point, she must make the same important decisions with her life as any other girl. “Where am I going from here, what will I do?” She has the alternatives, if she ever reaches this stage. of living as a full time girl or gearing her mascul- line life to allow the feminine personality that has developed. I sin- cerely believe, and it will cause quite a bit of controversy, I'm sure, that the normal FP will not reach this stage unless she has an A+ wife or is living alone in a pattern geared to her own desires. It requires too much concentration and too much attention. I know that a lot of the readers who are still living out of suitcases, hidden caches, wife's borrowed clothing, etc. will protest that they are just as much a woman as any one on the street. But this is just not so. As long as you are still infatuated or ena- moured with the idea of being a woman, you aren't thinking like one

Much of this of course can be blamed on the advertising media, which is constantly portraying the American woman in dream sequences, recli- ning in a tub, running in slow motion through fields, coming a long way, baby, and so forth. They aren't portraying the woman as a person, and you aren't thinking of a woman as one. (See The Hidden Persuaders or The Wastemakers by Vance Packard, for further documentation of this). Women don't get all dolled up to do housework, they aren't con- stantly feeling "the swish of their skirts against the back of their legs," they aren't constantly made up in going out makeup, and styled hair, they're just going around being people. I'm not saying that they never oh and ah over dresses or spend hours in the beauty parlor, or pay attention

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