is chivalry dead today?

Answer 1

If you mean courtesy extended based solely on gender, race, or religion -- that should be dead.

All humans deserve courtesy and respect, not just women.

I have yet to hear a logical argument that courtesy should be extended based on race, creed, or gender?

On a recent international business trip, I had dealings with many men and women. I noticed EVERYONE was courteous to EVERYONE else, regardless of language ability (I needed a translator), gender, or race.

Women are equal to men; they aren't helpless toddlers, unable to help themselves, let alone anyone else.

If this means that "chivalry is dead", so be it. But, good manners are alive and well.

Answer 2

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue.

Answer 3

why no! just today I put my flea-bitten frock coat I got at the Salvation Army over a muddy highway sewer pipe slash with the best of intentions, even if the fat broad from the DMV did fall flat on her twin-basketball butt.

OK, OK. Maybe it was a little unchivalrous to yank it out from under her at the last second, but I paid three bucks for that coat, and forgot my ferret (that I shoplifted from "Rats Is Us") had gotten loose in the lining somewhere

And hey, I just bought my old lady a new bucket and mop. Whaddya whaddya, anyway?

Answer 4

I don't really think so in some aspects, as there are still many guys who hold doors open for me and let me walk in front of them first. They are gentlemen.

And I think it's fine for a guy to lose his gentlemanliness if he's with a close female friend, it's very weird of you have to be all polite etc.

then there are guys who are disrespectful to girls like calling them "hos" and "b!tches" but there will always be rude people with no social skills no matter what sex they are.

True that the laying down the coat in a puddle for a woman to walk across is dead, I am not surprised it is too polite for such a society like ours, but chivalry still exists for me, just more toned down.

Answer 5

Depends on the woman. There are some classy women who like chivalrious men, but many go for men they deem more "exciting".

Answer 6

No. In decline, perhaps, but not dead. Simple courtesy, and respect for others never dies. Much like roller skating as a fun family entertainment, or evenings spent watching 'variety shows' on the TV, it has simply slipped out of vogue.
I see nothing wrong with holding a door open, or referring, in the correct social context, to a Man or Woman as Sir or Ma'am.
I treat people 'well', with due respect, or deference, politely, because that is what I have been brought up to do. And, because throughout my life, that has been reinforced as the correct, and most acceptable form of behaviour.
And yes, it's okay if you call me old fashioned.
Being nice costs nothing. Simple as that.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

Not dead completely, but very hard to find. I'm 41 years old and I have only met one man (other than my father) who exhibits that personality trait. Yes, I snatched him up quickly!

Answer 9

If you mean the colloquialized version of chivalry - yes, thankfully. Gender roles are (too) slowly dissolving, and so is the notion of discriminate treatment of women by men...

If you mean heriosm and helping the less fortunate, then no...

Answer 10

Yes and I hope it's buried under 100 feet of ciment.