RANSVESTIA

be and do and wear, and act and feel 1, 2, 3 & 4 and females must be and do and wear and act and feel, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Most of you would be very happy if society suddenly took off the lid and said it is fine if males want to wear dresses and heels and lipstick and sing and dance and act silly and free (and in short all the things you can't do today). Well, those who understand the root problems being attacked by womens lib will see that the problems are essentially the same but that each attacks. a different side of the same thing.

The more perceptive psychiatrists admit that they can't do much to "cure" femmiphiles but they don't offer any explanation as to their inabilities. But a moments reflection in the light of what I've said above makes it eminently clear why they can't. It is because the FP through some accidental event sometime in his life, generally before adolescence, has discovered the key to his dungeon and has let his "girl within” out to some degree. Since she is not an aberration but a real part of himself - his other half he is just not about to put her back in the dungeon just because parents, doctors, wives, society or whomever says that that is the way it has to be. He may feign a “cure” to keep the peace but we all know it is not for real. We have all been underground long enough to have learned that once we have found our other half we are not about to let her go.

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Now in referring to our “girl within” as our “other half” I want to be sure that you see this in the right light. This part of us is not some weird delusion or psychopathic condition that only FPs "suffer" from. The term "girl within" is just a convenient way of characterizing all those negative, no-no things that our society sees as belonging to the pink blanket set and being inappropriate for blue blanket people. These distinctions are arbitrary and variable between cultures, even within the same culture at various times (long hair for men, pantsuits for women etc.). Thus to really be a whole human being one needs to have access to all of his potential ways of reacting to his environment and not be limited to just some of them because his current culture has put a hex on the rest. I've often said that we should look on our FPia as a blessing and not as an unmitigated curse. It is perfectly true that it makes prob- lems for us in an unenlightened society such as we live in, but looked at positively we are the vanguard of Mens Liberation in that we have met and made friends with that woman formerly locked away in the dungeons of our psyche. What an interesting world it will be when all people male and female alike can once again be in possession of their whole full selves. Think of the contributions to be made by people who are not forced to limit themselves to just certain stereotyped patterns

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