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Um, so I know someone name Skye just commented on this thread because I got an email alert, but I can’t find her post on the actual thread. I’m just gonna write a reply and curse the internet in general

@skye  –  Nice stories! Very sweet. Also impressed you had the courage to go to prom. For my prom I want to go to Disney World with my brother. 😀

Here’s two of my ‘chivalrous stories’. I was at Aldi’s with my mom and baby sister. Mom forgot the bags for the groceries, so she left me holding my sister in line while she went out to get the car. There were two people ahead of me so we thought she’d have plenty of time to get back. Suddenly the line went through like zip and it was my turn to load stuff. So I’m walking back and forth from the cart, carrying my sister on one arm and trying to pile things on the conveyor belt with the other hand. The cashier’s just staring at me. Then a young man behind me who was helping his mom (I assume) unload onto the belt came up. “May I help?” he said, and emptied the cart in thirty seconds flat. (I appreciate that he said ‘may I’ not ‘let me’, even though it’s not that big of a deal and he’s still helping, it’s nice to ask.)

‘Nother story  –  Again, at Aldi’s… wait. Hmm, maybe all the world’s chivalrous guys hang out there. 😀 Anyways, I was just walking down the aisles with my brother and this guy came up behind me and handed me my MP3 player. It had apparently fallen out of my pocket and he’d looked through the entire store to find me again and return it. He called me ‘ma’am’ and said it looked expensive so he wanted to make sure I got it back. Some people, I’m sure, might have just pocketed it, but he searched the whole store to return it.

About female version of chivalry. This is actually what google gave me when I searched feminine form of chivalry. These are not my thoughts, just google’s, but I do agree with most of it.

“There is no “feminine side” to chivalry. The warrior code was designed for men alone. That’s not to say that women cannot honor what chivalry espouses, or partake in a personal quest of self-development. When women do this, it becomes their own code of behavior, and is not chivalry.”

I’m sorry, but in the literal opposite sense, I don’t think there is a feminine form of chivalry. I would say, personally, that my ‘code of honor’ is Proverbs 31, the virtuous woman passage. While most of the time reading it I despair of ever reaching that level of Godliness, it is my version of ‘a code’.

To the feminists in the world – note certain passages in the chapter… “stregtheneth her arms” “strength and honor are her clothing”. The Bible doesn’t say that women have to be weak little flowers who sit around the house all day and have man servants to do everything. The Proverbs 31 woman spins her own cloth, buys her own food, plants her fields and gardens, serves her whole household. But that also doesn’t mean we have to be macho and feminist. God gave men a wonderful role as our lovers and protectors, and we need to respect that. “Her husband also, and he praiseth her” because he recognizes the very important position she has in his life and wants to show that through being her strong protector, showing her that her safety and comfort is more important to him than his own.