Iron work-glove sculpture resting on a small bronze crown

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Porter Hollingsway

It's a man's world. Yeah! See something you want, go after it and get it! That's nature. It's why we're made strong and women weak. Strong conquer and provide for the weak. That's what a man's for! Teach our kids that, there'd be more men!

— A Letter to Three Wives  ·  1949

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Our interpretation.

The speaker presents male dominance as natural, claiming that men are strong and women weak. That sexist premise is used to justify conquest and provision as masculine duties. The closing demand to teach children this view turns a personal declaration into a prescription for how boys should be raised.

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