I ran across this jewel from 2013 just very recently. After texting it to my son, because I never miss an opportunity, I began to think about chivalry and how much better the culture would be if we valued it, taught it to our kids, lived by it.

This is a surprisingly refreshing opinion column in New York Times that brings about some great points and questions as to why have we strayed so far from something that previous cultures valued so much.

It begins by remembering some disgraceful vulgar behavior in 2010 by members of Yale’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity toward some of the ivy league women there, but assures us that chivalry is not dead, just on “life support.”

One could only hope but in present day 2019 I wonder, especially since legislatures all over the country are devaluing women and their contribution to heterosexual relationships/marriage/families.

While the NYT article cites scientific studies that proclaim “greater life satisfaction among men and women” where chivalry is present you’ve got to wonder why there is such a subversive legislative attempt to attack diminish women. Have we really evolved as a culture, or have we peaked and are in a steady slide into debauchery.

“An initiative called the Gentlemen’s Showcase, led by college women on campuses across the country for the past few years, rewards young men for helping out others in need. And perhaps most important, a major study of more than 10,000 people from around the world — one of the largest studies of its kind — found that the No. 1 attribute that both young men and women seek in a mate is not money or beauty or intelligence, but kindness, which lies at the heart of the chivalrous act.“

There is one thing on which I agree with the author of this opinion piece is, if we want men to act more like chivalrous men, women have to start giving them a reason to do so. There is no doubt the generational conditioning that a liberated sex life of women was ever a good thing has contributed to women losing the respect of men. If chivalry is ever to return to the culture women really need to rethink that one.

Read this to see how the Missouri Republicans are attacking families and marriage:

Missouri Republicans, Neely/Morris Work (Really Hard) To Devalue Family And Women And Increase Social Program Participation

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