SUMMARY Chivalry, historically, is entirely different from our modern day understanding. It was bastardized by Romantics, feminists, SJW's. TRP is old-school chivalry.

BODY "CHIVALRY IS DEAD!!!!" The shrilly cry of another feminist can be heard because blue pill Bob didn't open the door or pull out her chair. "CHIVALRY IS DEAD!!!!" The idiotic chant from another SJW thinking that by siding with feminists and embodying what women view as chivalry, he will inevitably get in their pants. "CHIVALRY IS DEAD!!!!" I cry, knowing that the pronouncedly masculine ideals of chivalric code, and the men that adhered to them, were killed by the women, themselves.

"But Val, isn't chivalry the embodiment of charitable kindness toward women? Wasn't it a set of guidelines for proper treatment of the delicate flower that is woman?" Nay I say to thee!

Our modern culture has an obsession with chivalry. As men, we are constantly berated by women. "CHIVALRY IS DEAD!!!!" they cry, because they long for a time when women were celebrated, were treated with delicate kindness, and were placed on the highest of pedestals. We in TRP know that the time women say they long for is actually the current state of affairs. We know women have never been treated better than they are today. Yet they still long for the chivalrous past. But chivalry is not what they think it was.

The true tenets of chivalry revolved around a code of conduct combining a true warrior ethos, knightly piety, and courtly manners. Chivalry and its commandments established the original notion of honor and nobility. The warrior ethos provided a chivalric knight be a demon on the battle field, never recoiling from the enemy, giving all his strength and determination and potentially his life, to battle. His knightly piety demanded that he defend the church, obey its laws, and be a holy soldier for God. Courtly manners meant he was truthful to a fault and was generous of himself and his possessions. The chivalric code produced knights who were champions of right and good.

Chivalry in its original form was not a code of conduct regarding women. Yes, women were benefactors of a knight's good behavior but the code itself was not specifically geared toward women. It was geared toward producing champions of the people who led by example. Chivalric knights were the true alphas of their time. The code provided them with their focus and their mission in life which did not revolve around women! It revolved around the knight being the best he could be, for himself and his liege. This is something that falls perfectly in line with TRP because it is a sexual strategy helping men become better for themselves, not for the women around them. Similar to the alphas of today, Chivalric knights were swooned over by women because they lived dangerous lives, were demons on the battlefield, lived life on their terms, yet maintained their manners and propriety in court. Women knew they were at the mercy of men who could easily kill yet chose not to.

Historical chivalry died out when the middle ages ended, war and the landscape of the battle field changed, and knights were no longer needed.

Enter Romanticism.

Romanticism brought a revival of chivalric code, but this "literary chivalry" was romanticized and bastardized in a way that changed the true face of an eminently masculine dogma. Romantic writers focused solely on chivalric treatment of women, forgetting that chivalry was a code of conduct born out of the battlefields of the middle ages. Gone were the masculine tenets relating to the warrior ethos and knightly piety. They were forgotten and replaced with tenets that focused solely on proper manners and the proper treatment of women. The literature of the time placed knights at the feet of their queens and liege ladies, obeying every request, begging for a chance to merely kiss the hand of the women they loved. Romantic literature showed knights placing women on the highest of pedestals. And this is how we remember chivalry today. Forgotten is the true masculine practice of chivalry. Feminists, SWJs, suffragists, etc, have continually used this blue pill version of chivalry to trick men into believing that submission and surrender are the ways to a woman's heart.

Modern chivalry is all about opening doors, pulling out chairs, standing when a woman enters the room, paying for meals, letting the woman lead, asking for consent, etc. It is a complete bastardization of a once pronouncedly masculine way of life; a way of life with which TRP shares many similarities. Chivalric knights of the middle ages would have been appalled by the modern version of chivalry. None of what women consider chivalric actions would have been practiced by the knights of old. THEY WOULD DO WHAT WE AT TRP DO; namely, live our lives for ourselves, being the best we can be for ourselves, bringing worthy women along for the ride. We bring women into our lives, our frame, our being, and treat them with respect only when they earn it. If they are not worth our time...NEXT!

Chivalry is dead.

Women, feminists, SWJ's, etc, are correct when they say chivalry is dead. However, it is not dead because men killed it. We here know that men are the true romantics, its why many-a-man has been duped by the blue pill. Women constantly play on this and make us believe in their version of chivalry. They want a revival of all the romantic values a tainted chivalry provides them. They want to have their cake and eat it too. Consequently, women killed chivalry, and with it, the modern man.

Credit to Etherzero21 - his post on leading really made me think about chivalry and how our modern views are completely wrong. With that said, Lift, lead, and DGAF.

-Val