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[moominmuppet]

An excellent dissection of a well-meaning but horribly misguided article in favor of chivalry

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Comments

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

I have to admit it was the comments which set me off. By the time I read halfway through, I had forgotten the article. And I certainly didn't mean to imply you were doing any bashing. My apologies for not being more explicit.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Ah, I hadn't even read them; long experience with Alternet has led to an automatic skipping of most comment threads, regardless of site, before the crazy eats my brain.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

I generally try not to read comments, but slipped up here. I had not yet read the original article (have now, and agree the guy was a dip) but gathered the general gist of the conflict from the response. The idea that being courteous and working towards substantive change were mutually exclusive concepts drove me to look for someone calling this out. I didn't find it.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

I read through the comments later on, and I did see a lot of people calling for a distinction between courtesy and chivalry, and arguing that courtesy is something we could all use more of.