Agreed with this. Chivalry, and the entire concept of overbearing male “responsibility”, needs to have a stake put through its heart once and for all. Let’s clarify this: our only hard-and-fast responsibilities that anyone has to any other person are clearly defined in the laws of whatever jurisdiction they live in. Beyond this, there are social conventions, based upon a reciprocal grant of position within a social setting under those conventions, that impose a few other expectations. As men’s position and prestige in society has waned, so too ought those expectations. Anything beyond this comes from nothing more than generosity and magnanimity, which we are under no obligation to show.
So men need to stop being generous, with our time, rights, lives, and property, and need to stop encouraging other men to do so as well. Atlas needs to shrug. Men’s rights activists are guilty as well, in this, for too often promoting the old, dead “father knows best” notion and trying to revive a dead ideal. Forget “being a man” for anyone else, do what’s best for yourself.
