(5:18 AM)
chivalry isn't dead
chivalry is a way of establishing a certain relationship between people. it's a dance that people do to set up gender roles. and it makes me angry. not that there's no place for it: I have certainly used it. but I don't think that there is a place for it with people who I am not flirting with! or who are friends with whom gender roles are fairly traditional (where I want to be breaking them). I realize that that's my personal preference, and I guess I'm just trying to say that it makes me angry when people make assumptions about their relationship to me, gender-wise.
(brought on by a mostly-friendly little chivalry tiff between my supervisor and I)
