If chivalry still persists, why do WOMEN sometimes have to yield to MEN in traffic?

[hrafn]

Why don't the men just wave us through or change the laws?

[starling]

Chivalry is a choice, not a requirement.

[kirklin]

Chivalry is what a guy does when he LIKES you....those are just random people on the street.

[denzell]

Chivalry is, and was a voluntary code of honor, and at it's core actually pertained far more to honorable relationships between men, than it did to how one would treat a lady. The stations of page, squire, and knight were all a part of chivalry. As was conduct on the battle field.

The parts of this code that delt with male/female relationships recognized men as protectors of women, and as such men and women both had duties in this relationship. Men were to physically assist and protect, and women were to succor and defer.

Women are no longer legally required to succor or defer to men, so why should men be required to protect, or even more strangely, defer to women?

Were actual chivalry in place, I might be socially required to stop and assist a woman who's car had broken down, but even as a stranger, she should defer to me as a man.

And, in all cases as with a code of honor and conduct, it is voluntary, but there would be social consequences for violating it.

What most people call "chivalry" today is a blasted out, twisted, hollow shell of it's former self, which says that men owe something to women. The idea that some people think that chivalry means that men have an obligation to defer to women is merely more proof of this fact.

[alleyne]

get real

[oakley]

Chivalry doesn't matter when it pertains to the law or safety. Don't be a feminist

[starling]

Yeah that's some BS. They don't have that problem in Saudi Arabia.

[crosbey]

Someone being polite isn't a God given right its an opinion. Chivalry hasn't existed in 100s of years. People just call politeness to women as being chivalry. Its just common curtsy that men do for each other as well. No one is owed special treatment.