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More startling, if thoroughly obnoxious, features of Mr. S.B. Dissanayake's psychological profile are being daily unearthed. Prof. G.L. Pieris plumbed the depths of absurdity recently when he claimed that the removal of Mr. Rienzie Arsakularatne from the Bribery Commission was because the Government wanted to shut Mr. Dissanayake's mouth. At the rate that Mr. Dissanayake is contributing to the pollution of the air by his utterances his new found leader Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe we are sure might be praying to the deities to obtain a permanent injunction to keep Mr. Dissanayake silent till election day.

In the meantime however Mr. Dissanayake continues to fascinate the students of psychology. Take for example his wish to see a certain lady in the altogether except for her underwear and in particular his salacious desire to view certain parts of that person's anatomy. What repressed desires must be driving this man who vehemently denied that he made overtures to a certain reputed athlete, allegations which were aired by the television station owned by no less a person than the elder brother of his newly discovered leader? Is it possible that in this age of sexual emancipation a former Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports could be suffering from a form of arrested sexuality? Even more fascinating is Mr. Dissanayake's underwear fetishism and the quaint word which he has used for this underwear. For the word is one which was used to describe men's underwear in the 1950s. Etymologists if not students of sociology might profitably inquire into the origin of this word 'lunket' which can not be found in any dictionary of English. But it is definitely not a term which is used to describe a woman's underwear. Has Mr. Dissanayake then any interest in cross-dressing? The mystery deepens indeed and things become curiouser and curiouser.

At the bottom of Mr. Dissanayake's unprecedented outburst appears to be a deep-seated antipathy and hostility not merely towards the target of his remarks but towards women in general. We do not know what rebuff from any female which Mr. Dissanayake suffered in his adolescence which has left such deep scars behind. But what is clear is that his remarks are those of a man who wants to see women degraded beyond the imagination of any civilised person. These are the symptoms of an aggressive male chauvinism which wants to subjugate womankind and humiliate it, primitive emotions which can find no place in any civilised social order.

But in one way we suppose one has to be grateful to Mr. Dissanayake. For if not for his sudden desertion of the PA and his embracing of the UNP we would not have known the man behind that mask. Now we know that behind that vast vacant grin is a maelstrom of elemental emotions, behind that snow-white national dress a wolf in wolf's clothing.

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