"These movies provide an excuse for the boys to move into the role of male protector," Dr. Hilfer said.

The women achieve this by the performances of countless religious rituals of their own which are observed for the welfare of their male protectors in their families.

The women are deliberately promiscuous in order to win more male protectors for their child.

Lacking male protectors, women, especially teenage girls who were indentured servants, often were vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

Aunt Pitty always felt that she needed a male protector when Rhett Butler was in the house.

He calls her "coz" (cousin), indicating a male protector, not a ravisher.

Before she was out of her teens, she had found her way to the theater and to male protectors who helped educate and support her.

So they'll be attractive to their male protectors.

Behind him he left two women without a male protector, his mother and his wife.