Should Chivalry Be Dead?

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2012-09-28 17:40

Article here. Excerpt:

'It didn't sit right with Lawrence E. Adjah that there were a lot of women standing up during their Caltrain commute, so he decided to take a stand. Adjah, a media and entertainment entrepreneur in Palo Alto, decided to make an announcement, asking for seated able-bodied men to give their seats to standing ladies. Passengers complied and Adjah posted a picture of the standing men and seated women to his Facebook page with the caption, "We did it! All the men agreed to stand! There are no women on this Caltrain standing. Small victories family, small victories." Gathering dozens of likes in minutes, the post stood as a testament to chivalry not being entirely dead. However, nice things rarely go rewarded, and a vocal minority of disapproving men, presumably Adjah's friends, voiced their opinion on Adjah's activism, claiming that chivalry should be dead, citing gender equality as the basis for dismissing Adjah's efforts.

While gender equality is an interesting premise for the argument against Adjah's efforts, it became clear from the negativity (and negative depiction of the women who might avail themselves of a seat that could be occupied by a dude's derriere) that the dislike of this was about a deeper hatred of women. Take this comment from one of Adjah's Facebook friends, for example: "That's that stuff that be driving the Female Entitlement Mindset. If you can run from store to store for four hours straight, then you can stand on the damned commuter train for a half hour. Sheeeit." The commenter followed up on the ""beggin' ass, free-ridin', tackheaded broads" Adjah was serving, continuing to say that "those "chicks" who want men to give up seats so that they can sit their lazy, entitled asses down are prime examples of the selfishness... [a]s much as it may surprise you to read, there are some men who actually BELIEVE in the notion of gender equality."'

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We'll see if they post it...

"Anything like chivalry should have been eliminated from social mores when women collectively stopped holding up their end of the social compact that has governed genderal relations for centuries. It's a deal. If one side breaks it, the other side should have no obligation to hold up their end of what used to be the agreement. Does it excuse nastiness and taunting and name-calling? No. That's just rude. But should the old expectations of men around such things as giving up seats, or the deeper stuff such as acting as providers for women, etc., also not be given up if women have abdicated role expectations around wife- and motherhood? Yes. Thus far only half of "The Revolution" has been acted out. Now it's time for the other half to be."

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2012-09-29 00:23