![]() I siad, why do you always do that? He says he does it for everyone, he’s happy not feeling demeaned, so it just says he cares. While walking on a sidewalk he will walk on the side closer to traffic. We scrutinize the pay gap and the lack of women in senior positions, and now we’re counting the horrific number of women who’ve been sexually abused or harassed in the workplace.Īgree with Gerald. We spend a lot of time considering the statistics of being a woman in terms of a larger picture. What exactly am I being protected from? Because it seems like men are trying to protect us from other men, without realising neither the problem nor the solution is on an individual level, but a cultural one. So, this notion of needing a “protector” in this day and age is all very strange to me. Not to mention, Affleck was accused of groping Hilary Burton in 2003. He says her “breasts are very firm, suspiciously firm” and then hypothesizes about her sex life. He suggests that the TV station would like it better if Losique did the show topless. Or more to the point, what am I meant to do if Ben Affleck’s the person who’s harassing me? In this 2004 interview with Affleck and Anne-Marie Losique, he exhibits the exact predatory behaviour he’s hoping to combat. We need to do better at protecting our sisters, friends, co-workers, and daughters.” But what am I meant to do if Ben Affleck’s busy and I’m harassed at work? The knight code still remains deeply imbedded in the modern male psyche.Īfter the unravelling of the Harvey Weinstein expose, Ben Affleck took to Twitter, saying, “I find myself asking what I can do to make sure this doesn’t happen to others. While it’s indisputable that these sorts of gestures are in decline, the notion that chivalry itself is dying out simply isn’t true. It also meant I was awkwardly a foot away from my food and I had to stand up again to move my chair closer to the table. I didn’t find it to be considerate behaviour I found it patronising. A few weeks ago, I was at a dinner in Phillip Island when a man pulled my chair out so I could sit in it. If a man can no longer justify his place in the world by jousting around with compromised vision in a hefty metal suit, how can we measure his manliness? How do we know he can still take care of and protect his partner?Īs technology exponentially grew, the preservation of masculine power learned to establish itself through other, seemingly mundane, tasks. Yet how applicable is this concept in society now? Given that men are no longer required to hunt, fight territorial wars and engage with little to no heavy labour, the qualifications of this knight-code in a modern environment have had to adapt. ![]() From this gendered, idolised archetype grew a kind of code, for which a man’s integrity could be upheld.įor centuries, we’ve maintained this notion that the male should protect, which is meant to be sweet, considerate, and generous. These bizarrely insignificant gestures are based on the goodness of men living in 500AD. What we define as chivalrous behaviour now is derived from the ideal qualifications of medieval knights, such as courtesy, generosity, valour, dexterity in arms, and strength etc. The history of chivalry bears light on certain protective roles we’ve maintained for hundreds of years to substantiate male power. Kind deeds can often belie a more sinister gendered history.
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