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Yeah... I've read a few books (not enough to make me all-knowing on the subject) and it seems to me that chivalry is more a fairy tale concept than anything else.
Certainly there was chivalry among the nobles, more than the common folk, but I do believe this had more to do with the men themselves than women. It would seem to me that a man would make himself look better in the eyes of others by saying things like "women and children first". I don't deny that some of it has to do with the protective instinct, but I honestly don't see how chivalry would be based merely on that.
As for knights, they weren't gentlemen. They could have almost any woman they wanted whenever they wanted, and more often than not, they did.
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