RANSVESTIA

They will all make you think and give you insights into just what kind of a prisoner you are in what kind of a prison. It's just that I think Men's Liberation is a better guide book on how to escape. You are all interested in that since you have in various degrees devised your own partial escape through getting acquainted with your girl within. This is something like these work furlough sentences judges sometimes meet out where the individual leaves prison every day to go to work and then returns to his cell everynight. In a left-handed and reverse way, the prison cell is a kind of escape from the real world, but the prisoner has to be able to deal with the rules and regulations of the special kind of prison the real world is. We, as FPs can get away from the real world in out femme selves, but come tomorrow, we have to be back at the old 9 to 5 job and thus back into the 9 to 5 prison. People need to learn other ways of dealing with the world so that they can be joyful participants in it and not unhappy victims of it. In short, there have to be and are other ways of dealing with the problem than the femm-escape route. Jack points out many of these in his book and that is why I recommend it to you highly.

It occurs to me as something of an afterthought resulting from my proof reading of my Virgin Views column in this issue that getting your wife to read Men's Liberation might very well be a good piece of groundwork towards getting her to understand your cross dressing as an escape route. The trouble is that women being the peasants of this society and regarding men as the nobles, look upward to the castle on the mountain in which the nobles live as embodying many of the better things in life which have heretofore been denied to them. Thus while they see their own emancipation as good and desireable, they have no way of recognizing that the people that live in the castle are as much prisoners of the mountain top as they have been prisoners in the valley. Reading this book might make them a bit more receptive to the idea that men really do need some liberation and that maybe life in the castle on the bleak and forbidding slopes of the mountain may not be so great after all. Maybe daisies and buttercups, apples and oranges and sun drenched meadows might have a special appeal to those forced to live among the wind, snow and barren rock of mountain peaks. Thus they might—just might be more receptive to your needs. Try it, educating them (and yourself) to the real nature of masculinity in our society couldn't hurt.

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