QUOTE : With the cultural portrayal of the smallest details of existence, the distance between one's experience and one's perceptions of it becomes enlarged by a vast interpretive network by this ubiquitous cultural network, the experience must be denied. This process, of course, does not apply only to women. The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects - if never erotic objects. Images become extensions of oneself; it gets hard to distinguish the real person from his latest image, if indeed, the Person Underneath hasn't evaporated altogheter. [...] each image hitting new highs of sophistication until the person himself doesn't know who he is. Moreover, he deals with others through this image-extension. (Boy-Image meets Girl-Image and consumattes Image-Romance). Even if a woman could get beneath this intricate image facade - and it would take months, even years, of a painful, almost therapeutic relationship - she would be met not with gratitude that she had (painfully) loved the man for his real self, but with shocked repulsion and terror that she had found him out.