On Chivalry:
WHEN WOMEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHIVALRY, I’m prone to point out that chivalry was a system, one that imposed obligations of behavior on women and girls as well as on men. Likewise, when David Brooks complains that Edward Snowden is an unmediated man, I must note that in the civil society Brooks invokes, Presidents and other leaders were also mediated; they were not merely checked by Congress, courts, etc., but they were also checked by themselves, and a sense of what was proper that went beyond “how much can I get away with now?” Obama, too, is unmediated in that sense. That Brooks couldn’t see beyond his sharply-creased pants to notice that when it was apparent to keen observers even before the 2008 election, is not to his credit. If the system of civil society has failed, it is in no small part because its guardians — notably including Brooks — have also failed.
– Glen Reynolds, Law Professor, author, columnist, and proprietor of Instapundit
Feminists decided that chivalrous acts by men were merely acts of paternalism to a weaker sex – and hated it and therefore wanted it GONE. Got nobody to blame but themselves, but then again, self-responsibility is in the process of being done away with as well. It also shows that cultural systems can take a long time to decay and then, poof!, they’re gone. What took hundreds (if not thousands) of years to put into place has disappeared in what, 60? How long will it take for it to redevelop?
I have no intention of holding my breath…
