Modern Chivalry Versus 'Modern Sexism'

Destiny J Carmichael

English IV

Annotated Bibliography If you 're a gentlemen you might be sexist. Imagine you 're walking down the street with one of your male friends. As you walk down the street you notice your friend, positions himself to walk on the side of the sidewalk closest to the cars moving in the street . You ask him why he 's doing that, and he saids to protect you just in case a car swerves. Like most men you would probably be insulted because he emasculated you. But if your a woman it 's different, especially if you 're a feminist woman, you would probably feel confused. Would letting a man protect you when you 're capable of doing of being mindful, and protecting yourself on your own be sexist ? By letting a man help

I agree with this statement, because the definition of feminism according to the Merriam Webster dictionary “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes”. Having the right to make decisions, partitiopate and choose like men choose is equality. If a man gives a women a choice to either, take or deny or take there chivalry, they are not sexist. This means men, if a woman wants to get the door for herself let her get the door for

If you want to make chivalry more gender friendly. We shouldn 't scream at men for opening the door for us, and calling them sexist, for being raised right, but women as feminist need to start being chivalrous to men. We need to pay for half of a date every now and then, or holding doors open for a man. When it comes down to it chivalry it all boils down to treating people kindly. There is a difference between a man who practices chivalry, and man who is a benevolent sexist. Men who are practicing chivalry don 't have malice intentions and just want to be kind to women because they are kind