#Question: Is Chivalry Dead?

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Before you check out this next post, I want you to picture in your mind Sean Connerynarrating.  It may make this more enjoyable. 

 It should come to no surprise that I utilize various online dating websites with varying degrees of success and the one headline I see more often than any other on these dating profiles is this particular question about chivalry.  So before I can answer it, I think it's important to define chivalry as listed in most dictionaries.

CHIV·AL·RY

The medieval system, principles, and customs of knighthood.

The qualities idealized by knighthood, such as bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry toward women

Ok, now that we have that out of the way the answer to your question, drum roll please......wait for it...

Yes!

Chivalry is most certainly dead.  The days of a knight wearing shining armor, fending off 100 men to save his beloved are over.  The only way you are going to receive the true chivalrous treatment is to somehow find your way into Camelot.  However, keep your guard up because I've got to imagine even some of the knights in this mythical place were total pricks.  I mean, even Sir Lancelot was bending King Arthur's wife, Guinevere, over the round table.  That is hardly knightly behavior.  

But modern day knights do exist.  All you need to do is jump the Atlantic to see living, breathing knights. If my memory serves me correctly, Sir Paul McCartney has been welcomed into this institution and I know a ton of women find this guy attractive.  Or maybe, it's the fact that he has a billion freaking dollars and just happened to be a Beatle.

The good new ladies is the previous couple paragraphs were my attempt at comedy whether you chuckled or not, because the qualities that make a man chivalrous are alive and well.  They may take a vacation every once in awhile but you will be happy to know that many men still possess these qualities. However, these particular men are most likely not found at your local night club with a t-shirt painted on their body and their hat perpendicular to their eyes. This guy is more likely to posses the qualities of a wet flapping douchebag rather than a knight.  

However, my attempt at chivalry was shot down recently while on a date.  We had an awesome dinner at fantastic restaurant and as we got up to leave I looked out the window and happened to notice some harsh weather conditions outside.   The rain was pounding the pavement.  The trees looked as if they could be uprooted at any second by the 80 mph gusts of wind.  Ok, maybe that's exaggerating a little but nonetheless the weather was shitty.  I offered to go to the car, come back, and pick her up at the front door of the restaurant.  She turned to me, dropped her chin, looked up at me with her sarcastic eyes and said "I'm not helpless.  I can walk thank you!"  

So the moral of the story, chivalry is not dead and bitchiness is very much alive. 

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