If you think men have it good, you are blind or unwilling to open your eyes. Feminism is about bashing men and benefiting women, plain and simple.

Read the fine print in the Violence Against Women Act, read the statistics on divorce (70% initiated by women) and joint custody legislation (blocked by feminist groups, lobbied for by fathers’ groups).

Chivalry is dead. Andrea Dworkin sat on it, and Catherine MacKinnon ruled its death an accident.

Dead, dead, dead.

I consider it a bad habit in myself and I have counseled my sons against picking it up.

I still believe that all of its elements are good ideals and to be followed to the best of one’s ability. All of one’s acts, great and small, are where our moral constitution’s rubber meets the road. It is also where the road meets the rubber and its true condition cannot be wished away.

You claim that feminism doesn’t teach the disrespect of men and that women will abide strong male leadership. Whom am I to believe? You or my lying eyes? You even blatantly twist an undeniable truth of the treatment of men in the common media into a whining complaint that your strawman abases himself with.

I spent my formative adolescent years in residence at a strict honor code institution. Here is your lesson in advanced honor.

Honor is a precious and fragile thing that can only exist and operate among those who prize and swear themselves to it. It obligates one to idealistic acts regardless of one’s personal interests. However, its duties are easily manipulated by the unscrupulous, obligating one to his own and even honor itself’s own destruction. Therefore, honor is not owed where honor is not offered. Honor is never obligated to do evil.

As honor is protected by rejecting the claims of those who are not sworn to it, so must chivalry be protected.

Worse still than women’s rejection of men’s chivalry is their utter rejection even to decided ignorance of their own obligations: poise, gentleness, honesty, fidelity, charity, humility, and, yes, chastity.

Only to such a lady do I OWE chivalry. To the rest it is an un-earned a favor that I give or not at my choosing. It is a matter of my integrity, not my duty.

Despite your enthusiasm and personal dedication, you are a dilettante who would guide good men down a road of woe and waste. Think twice and look carefully for the one that matches the gentleman’s constitution. The other rough and rutted one respects only the iron strapped wheel.