Where Has Male Chivalry Gone?

Gloria Aguirre’s cry for chivalry has fallen on deaf ears. It is amusing to note the cry, however.

She states that while riding the bus she sees “healthy looking men seated, while older adults, pregnant women, and women holding babies are standing.”

Women have decided that it’s OK to leave their traditional responsibilities behind, take over a man’s job (even when not as qualified) and then ask him to give up his seat. The women’s movement is most appropriately named.

Let’s consider the “pregnant woman” she mentioned. Odds are that she will take six months off to have her baby to “find herself,” then turn the infant over to a paid caretaker from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, while she returns to work where she again displaces her male counterpart who has kept the wheels turning in her absence. On his way home from a day at the unemployment office she demands his seat. How about the “women holding babies?” They also have abandoned their children to the paid caretaker for 11 hours a day in favor of the job market.

May I suggest that if Aguirre wishes to be treated like a woman she should learn to act like one. I think that she’ll find that most men are eager to open doors, relinquish seating, lay coats across mud puddles, etc., when women stop competing with them and start being women.

Women are supposed to be soft, warm, loving and cute, not hard, cold, competitive and aggressive. Most women have stopped asking for things and have started demanding them--most unattractive. No wonder marriage takes place later in life--it takes a great deal longer to find a woman that isn’t trying to be a man!

No, Ms. Aguirre, male chivalry is not dead--it’s just waiting for women to regain their sanity and act like women again before it resurrects itself.

RICHARD WILKINSON

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