NRO: In Search of Chivalry. Carrie Lukas wonders about chivalry in the age of feminism, and commits a fundamental error:
bq. Gentlemanly conduct isn’t about women at all. It’s about men and their sense of themselves. Paul Anderson continues to say that he would give up his seat to someone truly in need, such as the elderly, pregnant women, and the disabled. But that’s not gentlemanly, that’s just humane.
Nonsense. Chivalry is not about a man’s sense of self. Chivalry is about survival – not individual survival, but rather that of the species. The acts of the men on the Titanic – placing the survival of women and children before their own – is evolution in action.
Societies that forget that simple premise are doomed.
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They’re both wrong. Chivalry is about a bunch of inbred morons charging across a muddy field towards a defensive position held by 5,000 longbowmen.
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