I've given up seats before and got some surprising looks as well (just not from the people for whom I was giving it up). Strange, as I was brought up to do so as, again, common courtesy.

i need a ipod right now.

since when is it ok for a spouse to ask her husband to get up from the couch, put away the laptop and go upstairs and get her the laptop chord (after bringing down the laptop for her half an hour earlier) when she's got two perfectly fine legs and is sitting closer to the stairs...

/stops rant

i think i just killed chivalry with an emphatic NO!

Hahaha... awesome, Dlish.

That's how you show her that you're a MAN.

No, he uses the back of his hand for that. Like a real man.

That usually accompanies the "NO!"

Actually, it's funny... I find myself as the "person making the sandwich" more often than not. I don't mind, really.

I'm usually wandering around the apartment anyway.

...

Chivalry, like slavery, has been replaced with a better system.

Down here in Oz, the Feminazis are trying hard to stamp out common courtesy, just as everywhere else. Thank Christ there pretty thin on the ground here. The thing is, when we use the word Chivalry, it has connotations relating back to the original meaning, like knights errant rescuing distressed maidens, and as such, it does have chauvinistic overtones.

Maybe it's the circles I move in [or it could be my advancing years], but I have NEVER had a complaint when I open a car door for a woman, or stand aside to let her enter a doorway first. Having said that, I do the same thing if I'm with another male, it's just courteous.

If there's a few rabid FemDoms out there who think I'm demeaning them - well, fuck 'em, they're a minority and time will sort them out in the end.

Anyway, f I had a choice, I'd take feminism, no matter how extreme, in preference to PC. I tell you, the world's going mad with political correctness - but that's another subject.