I’m a big guy but today I was struggling to carry several large bags up some stairs. A skinny young woman stopped to help me carry them. Reverse chivalry – IMMD!
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i wouldn’t call it reverse chivalry because chivalry is an ethical code and therefore not reversed if adopted by a woman
however that woman seems to be awesome
“Reverse chivalry” is absolutely fine. One of the specific definitions of the term is “courtesy toward women” and the concept is based on an ideal of male behavior.
But she does seem to be awesome!
Helping others because they are human beings is chivalry. Helping others because they have boobs is horniness. And there is really nothing romantic about simply horny guys
Chivalry was a code of conduct that was adopted by medevial knights. Courage, mercy, valor, protecting the weak and the poor. Now, if we get into courtly love, then maybe you’re onto something.
Axtually, it’s not so much horniness as it is sexism. Research the reasons behind the original development of chivalry. It wasn’t about being courtesy so much as helping the ‘weak’.
IMMD that you weren’t too macho to accept. There are too many guys out there who’d rather get a hernia or throw their back out than accept help from a woman.
My thoughts exactly.
Amen! If I am going out a door before anyone I hold it open for them and guys give me the weirdest looks and even say things like “I should be holding it for you!”
I must say, I have never had that happen. Everyone I open the door for either says thank you or ignores me (except my boyfriend, who always makes me go first, but he holds the door open for EVERYONE, so it takes like 10 minutes to get into some places).
I get that all the time, too! I’m thinking, “Oh, I’ll be polite and hold it for them,” and they get into a huffy! Especially guys who are 40+, who were taught manners as children. Some young guys, though, are just surprised that someone held the door for them — the idea is completely novel to them!
I’m all for ditching chivalry and shooting instead for kindness, compassion, and common courtesy, so stuff like this happens more often.
Bravo to both parties.
Not enough space!
Or conversely, it’s really cool that a little thin gal offered to help as opposed to assuming that she is too little and thin to be of any help. Props to you, whoever you may be!
I’m small and young, and I do that all the time. Common curtesy and stuff
it like when I was in the girl scouts and this old lady helped me across the road (I didn’t actually have to cross) (true story)
Good for you for accepting the old lady’s help even if you didn’t need it. There are all kinds of chivalry.
I actually don’t mind chivalry (of the guy-opening-doors-for-girls variety) But then, I would also try to do the same for other people, just out of niceness. There are a few different roots for chivalrous behaviour, and some of them come from seeing women as weak, but I think that 90% of the time stuff like that is done today, it is purely done out of respect, and I like accepting it as such