“Chivalry is dead, and woman has killed it,” Dave Chappell once said this on the Dave Chappell Show, and at first I did not believe that honorable men existed no more. My opinion has greatly changed after I watch boys fighting over nothing at all. In Medieval times, the term chivalrous was a term that linked a man into knighthood, and granted him God’s blessing on the battle field. Where he would not pillage, or fight on uneven ground, but had a “courtesy” to his enemies, and would grant them the honor of fair combat, and did not bare any hate to his fallen opponents, and would bless them in hopes that they might find peace.
Today, there are but a handful of men who possess the attributes of chivalry, mainly because chivalry is so unknown to people that it appears creepy, outlandish, and outdated. Women today are in a man’s world, and are affected by man’s decisions, and thusly have to protect themselves from the idiocy of a man’s demeanor, hence the mace, R.A.D. classes, and putting bouncers at the clubs and bars. Then when a girl meets a chivalrous man, they don‘t understand what that man is trying to do. Assumptions get made, and the guy is marked a pervert, and is now the newest social pariah. But when she meets a guy who is kind of nice but is still a dick to her, she won’t leave his side because girls love to change boys into chivalrous men, and take the drama along the way. Or maybe another reason is because when you constantly have something, its value is less than something that is rare, and when a guy is a dick all the time, his nice moments mean a lot more than if he were nice all the time.
Chivalry is not only lacking in men, but in women too, in Kanye West’s song Gold Digger, he explains how women are no longer interested in the men, but they are interested in the man’s financial ability to take her out and buy her something nice, or let her ride in his fancy car. Eddie Griffin said, “What happened to just falling in love with someone with a bus pass just because you love the person?”(Ed-U-Cation 2001) As far as who is responsible for the fall of honor and chivalry, I place the blame on the woman because she is no longer interested in the man alone.
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I really enjoyed reading your papers actually impressive ;-) But I don't think it's just women's interest in $ that killed chivalry it's a lot of other factors that go into the way society has changed women's right and their demands to become equally treated and how people show respect. BUT most definitely some women enjoy the challenge of trying to facilitate a change in someone to help make them "better" in their eyes - oh what would life be like with out contention? You should post your other paper why chivalry isn't dead -- I liked that one better! ;-) Lila
well i'm a guy, and from my stand point that's how i see it, but you are right, the death of chivalry did come from the feminist movement. as fair as equality goes, there is no equality. women still don't have to register for the draft, which i think if women truly support equality, and not just rights, they should support the female draft.
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