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The author's tale about physical courage: should a man protect a woman? As the author is sometimes fond of asking the cowardly sex-addicted craven's of this generation who are so fond of the strong woman and the effiminate sensitive male: suppose a bully came up to abuse you and your wife' would you stand in front of her and defend her-- or hide behind her and expect her to fight? This story shows how a man should act in times of a woman's physical peril.

Should men protect women?

Should men continue to take the role of provider and protector of women?

"In my  opinion it is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth. It is a reversion to barbarity and the beginning of the end. In trying to ride the horse that man rides, she brings herself and him down. The sin will be on man's head for tempting or compelling his companion to desert her special calling. There is as much bravery in keeping one's home in good order and condition as there is in defending it against attack from without."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
- Ephesians 5:23