Chivalry is pretty obviously sexist. Treating women like sheep essentially, or cattle or some such form of property. Of course you should respect your property gotta maintain it and all that.
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Chivalry and sexism
Is chivalry a form of sexism? I keep going back and forth on this because on one hand it seems to support respect for women, yet on the other purports the stereotype that women are weak and require men.
After reading this article about a study done on chivalry(and coming to the conclusion that benevolent sexism is still after all sexism), I think I've decided that chivalry is a negative, reactionary way of subtly oppressing women. What are your thoughts?
"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
-Alexander Berkman
Chivalry is pretty obviously sexist. Treating women like sheep essentially, or cattle or some such form of property. Of course you should respect your property gotta maintain it and all that.
I agree that it's reactionary. I say equal respect for both genders, be polite to everyone, regardless of gender.
One of my clueless friends who is completely clueless regarding communism told me that chivalry is like communism somehow. She baffles me.
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Is this in reference to the medieval knight's moral code or to the vague modern concept of it?
The original "chivalry" implied far more than a sexist, domineering treatment of women. It also included brutal oppression of the peasants and serfs in Medieval Europe, as well as a theocratic, expansive mentality of fighting for Christianity and the church. It was a system of pure and blatant oppression. Its modern form is little more than romanticized sexism.
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Men and women should definitely be treated equally. I have no doubt that sexism is ignorant but at the same time there is nothing wrong with being polite or a decent person. On a date I try to open doors or whatever but that's not because I see women as "helpless". I just want to show that I care about them, not that I am the better gender or something stupid. I have no problem in a girl paying for dinner, equality is where it's at.
How come you're always the one opening the door? It's possible you're always the nicer person, but more likely that this action is a product of cultural norms (which are sexist).
milton said nothing about him always being the one opening doors, but that he tries "to open doors or whatever". You shouldn't accuse him as "always the one opening the door"...
The problem in this case is only the system that led to the action, not the action itself. So what should be done? Stop the action?
