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ities we plan but also will receive a bimonthly newsletter the Fem- me Mirror, the same name as we used to use for an auxiliary publi- cation of Transvestia which was discontinued about seven years ago for lack of time and manpower to put it out. Mamselle members will be provided with the current FPE Directory and will appear in the next supplement to it. All told, we feel that we have the members, the leaders, the experience and the interest with which to build not only the largest but the best organization for FPE's in the country. We hope all present members of FPE will approve this change and sup- port it; that all former members of FPE will return and support Tri Sig- ma, and that members of other organizations and those who are mem- bers of no organization will hop on the bandwagon and help us make The Society for the Second Self every FP's favorite organization.

To help it grow we plan to budget 20 percent of the annual dues toward promotional activities, ads in newspapers or magazines, con- tacts with various types of helping organizations, circularizing the professions at various conferences, etc. if that should prove feasible, and in any other way that seems likely to help us. We have bought mailing lists offered by others and will circularize these people in our search for members. At the same time we promise as has always been the case with FPE in the past that names and addresses of our people will not be sold or given to others without their express permission.

The Gay community, though still split into a number of different organizations is making its dent on society in general and gayness is not the hush-hush thing it used to be. People are not scared to let the world know of their interests. Women's liberation, too, although divided into many different groups, is changing society. Men's liberation groups have started in a very small way in a number of places and books have been written about the problems of being male. (I strongly recommend The Hazards of Being Male by Herb Goldberg, Ph.D. I know him and I've read the book. You could profit from it). But no one has directly attacked the one biggest problem in our society (not counting the economic, environmental and political areas) and that is the problem of a man's other side his own in- ternal suppressed femininity. Women are freeing up their masculinty but men are still afraid of their own femininity. They still spend a great deal of their lives proving and exhibiting their masculinity on the positive side and inhibiting and suppressing all other parts of them- selves that they consider non-masculine which is to say feminine. Theodore Roshak, a writer on women's liberation, once said in one of

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