The sad thing is, nowadays, many (not all, so don`t jump at my throat unless the shoe fits) women expect to be treated as equals (a perfectly reasonable demand) while retaining the treatment they were once given when they were considered `fragile` (or whatever the correct adjective is) which is where their point gets hazy.
Being a gentleman entails being polite, however it also entails treating them like they do, in fact, somehow require our help/kindness. The new age way of thinking, on the other hand, insists both sexes are equal. Although this has merit, women can`t expect men to keep treating them with bias due to their sex, only to turn around later and expect equal rights and salaries.
Don`t get me wrong, I`m all for equality. I only suggest equality be maintained wether it is in regards to money, the right to vote or most of all (at least most of all in the given thread) the way people treat you in everyday life.
The only problem with this suggestion is that it would require men to treat women they will never date like they would any other man... Which they won`t... But should.
Essentially, the whole debate would be up to the women of today to decide: Equality (which would include having to hold your own door open *with this I include all courteous treatment* as well as the complete removal of bias in divorces, which is kind of an issue...) or to expect differential treatment, only to highlight the difference between genders, seperating both to the point where gender-roles re-emerge in society, this, no matter how you look at it, would be a bad thing. Because in every society, one role is going to come out as `superior`to another, thus, depending on roles, one sex would become the `superior sex`. The problem with that is, as history has demonstrated clearly through the centuries, in humanity, men tend to take such things to heart, not to mention that most of the world`s more... Idealistic lots, which do technically consist a majority of earth population, would obviously never allow men to become the weaker of both sexes. Leading most of earth to insist upon a `woman`s place` which (because lets face it, people are sheep) would eventually win over countries with a new world view, causing all the progress women have achieved throughout the century to go to waste.
Case in point, chivalry is dead out of necessity, but it is very dead.
