2006-11-30 17:20:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Feminists MOSTLY killed it. Sorry. Blame b***** like Steinem for that.
I hold the door for not only my wife but other women too. I give up my seat if a pregnant or elderly person needs it, I let people in in traffic, I help if I see someone struggling to carry something, I stop my car and help push someone out of traffic if their car is broken down.
Unfortunately, women so rarely encounter this anymore they think I am some sort of weirdo for offering and sometimes freak out. Sad but true. Men have been MOSTLY reduced to two types : jerks or wimps. I was in the wimps category for quite some time while al lthe girls dated the jerks. I had been told from maybe 1978-1993 that women didn't like chivalry, they didn't want to be treated like "ladies", they didn't want guys to do sweet things for them and hold doors, carry heavy stuff, etc. Like a fool I (and MANY other guys) believed it. I finally smartened up.
One time I saw a woman who just couldn't get her 2 year old to stop running around in a parking lot while she was carting a TV out to her van. I corralled the kid (she was alarmed, at first - rather him be hit by a car?) and I loaded the TV in her van. I think she was shocked that I wasn't trying to have sex with her or something, that I was really just being a nice guy. Sad that she had likely never seen that before.
I also came across a woman who's car was broken down in the center lane of a three-lane highway, causing a major traffic backup. She was hysterical inside her car and thought someone would hit her and she was scared to get out. I pulled off the side, stopped traffic in the right lane, and pushed her off to the side. People in the right lane were yelling stuff - what, you can't wait 2 min to clear the road? I let her use my cell phone to call her father and I waited with her until he came. When I left you'd think I was the nicest guy she'd ever met - she simply couldn't believe it - she wanted to give me her number as if she might never find a nice guy again in her life. Her father, however, obviously remembered when guys like that were common and this act was nice, but unspectacular.
2006-12-01 02:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by fucose_man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chivalry is not dead!
my dad still holds the door and pulls out my moms chair for her at nice restaurants.
2006-12-01 01:28:31 · answer #2 · answered by ladyjeansntee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is not one reason - the so called women's lib movement, the brashness of the rich, the collapse of the family structure, the lack of education (difference between literacy and education) and the lack of morals in the young people.
2006-12-01 02:10:46 · answer #3 · answered by majorcavalry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a time when it was expected and people were punished or looked down on for not showing it, now days it's just the opposite.
2006-12-01 01:42:00 · answer #4 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell man, pick one thing. Counterculture, Feminism, Unconditional tolerance, Liberalism, Socialism, White guilt, etc...
2006-12-01 01:24:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋