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Originally Posted by Gonth
I have to agree with Carno here. In my mind chivalry and common courtesy are two very different things.
When you were helped at the store, SugahBritches, the man did not help you because he was chivalrous, he did it because he was a nice guy. In your eyes this may be seen as chivalry but I'd bet you a whole lot o' money that he didn't see it that way.
This might be the reason for all the seeming negativity in this thread? If so its kinda sad that so many of us are getting so bent out of shape over so small a thing. Thats the reason for this forum no? To have debates about interesting topics and not get bent out of shape?
I don't know, just seems like people are getting really angry about this. Which is somewhat amusing because we are talking about being courteous to people. Come on folks, relax a bit. :P
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I don't think people are getting angry. I think people are trying to figure out why some of us want to return to days gone by using some romantic notion of how men should act towards women based upon a culture that was highly misogynistic.
We have to wonder whether the OP either 1) didn't know the difference between chivalry and common courtesy or 2) knew the difference but didn't think it would cause this much of a commotion.
No one is arguing that people shouldn't treat each other with courtesy. We are arguing that the idea of men acting in such a fashion seems to require women acting in an obsequious manner. In this regard, this flies in the face of equality and of everything women fought for in the ongoing quest for equality.