The Social Conflict of Opening Doors

To open, or not to open?

We all know someone who gets offended when a man opens a door for her. You might even be one of those people. Women often get offended when a man opens a door for them in a public location because they see it as a symbol of the days when women physically needed men to open doors for them because corsets and hoop skirts challenged their mobility, making them effectively handicapped. When a fellow opens a door for us nowadays, we may see it as an insult; that men are viewing us as fragile, inferior to men, and incapable of opening doors ourselves. This everyday trivial act of revived chivalry is transformed into the ultimate disregard for female equality. Chivalry turns to sexism. The big question is, was the feminist movement what killed men's politeness towards women because women pushed all the door opening away, or is the decline of etiquette and chivalry merely because men are no longer being raised to act like gentlemen anymore? Tell me your thoughts!

The Purpose of this Blog

This blog is intended to expose the truth behind modernity, in contrast with the chivalry of the Middle Ages and the lady-like etiquette of the Victorian era.  We will explore the following questions:

1. Is society today in fact worse than before.
2. Is the social freedom we have acquired in this last century worth the sacrifice of traditional values and propriety? Or is there a happy medium?
3. Is chivalry dead?
4. If chivalry is dead, why is it?
5. If chivalry is not dead, then does it pose a threat to feminism?
6. Should Victorian era manners and formalities be reinstated in society in some capacity, or does etiquette pose a threat to feminism as well?
7. If we were to go around acting old fashioned, how would people react?

In short, this blog's purpose is to debate whether or not modernity is better than tradition from the perspective of gender roles and equality.

Stay tuned for absurd sociological experiments, tea party analysis, and more.