“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the
spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there
is a wrong left unredressed on earth.” -Charles Kingsley
People tend to state that they see chivalrous acts less and less often, frequently citing the Women’s Liberation Movement as the cause of that trend. Did Feminism kill Chivalry? Was Chivalry something used by men to demean women to a degree where it was needed to be stomped out by the militant feminist boots? Should a man fear being a male chauvinist if he had the audacity to open a door for a lady? Is a man who offers his seat in a bus proving he is a misogynist pig? Have the ideals of gender equality trumped traditional civility? Or have men simply become jaded with the fact that women don’t need them to survive?
Original full article on Good Men Project
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