Chivalry and Other Mid-evil Concepts

After reading "The Question of Chivalry" by Tracey at Unapologetically Female I had to respond. So, I commented.

My comment was:

What are gender neutral ways to show respect for others? Rather than bashing men who are trying to be courteous (and not understanding that a lot of women don't see it as a courtesy) why don't we try to replace old (sometimes bad behaviors) with good ones.

"She's talking about all men "gallantly" showing women respect through door-opening when there are so many other (much more important) ways in which they systematically disrespect women," Tracey said.

Can we get a thread or a conversation going about the ways men are disrespectful and try to teach them better ways to show us respect? For that matter, can we talk about ways to show men respect that aren't promoting male chauvinism or the subtle degradation of (ourselves) women? That is a blog I'd like to read. This is a good segue or prequel to that conversation, and I think it's a conversation that needs to be had.

(The End)

Except I'm not done.

TBC...