“Men are easy marks!” Thus proclaims the headline of an article in a 1925 issue of Liberty magazine. Subtitle: “An article revealing the real reason for fur coats, diamonds, husbands, and everything such as that.” The full article makes quite an entertaining read, but this paragraph suffices to give you the flavor:

Men are sentimentalists, of course. It is the women who are the hard-boiled sex. The little, meek, wistful girl with a helpless air is the very one who really is doubling up her fists and “going out after what she wants.” What she wants, usually, is a fine, strong man, and the man usually considers himself successful and masterful after he has gone through all the motions of capturing the dear little helpless thing, although she has had the capturing carefully planned well in advance.

In case you were wondering whether “Thyra Sampter Winslow” was for real, the answer is “Yes!” She was a prolific magazine writer of the early 20th century who, according to Wikipedia, divorced her author husband in 1927 to marry a Yale-educated engineer with the rich-sounding name of Nelson Waldorf Hyde.

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