A promotional segment, disguised as journalism, aired on a local morning news program. It opened with a fluff survey from a dating site claiming, “73% of single women say that chivalry is dead.”
Then the performance began. The host brought in two women to “debate” the issue.
On one side was Suzanne Venker, author of The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage, a book that still holds on to the last threads of sanity. On the other was Dr. Wendy Osefo, a Nigerian born professor from Johns Hopkins, a Democratic strategist, and a single mother. Likely single because the man she chose either refused to tolerate her demands or was tossed aside for not measuring up to her delusional checklist.
The panel was given three scenarios to evaluate.
1. A man picked up a woman for a date. She stood there demanding he open the door for her. He told her it was unlocked. She refused to get in, so he drove off.
2. A 1954 telegram from a groom to his bride:
“Darling, I shall be waiting for you at eight with a lifetime of expectancy. My heart will be coming with you down the aisle. May GOD be with us tonight as we pray we will always be with Him. Thank you for becoming my wife. My love forever yours, Henry.”
3. A post on social media declaring:
“Chivalry is harmful for both men and women because it forces this idea that women need to be helped or saved by a stronger man and it takes away from a woman’s agency.”
Suzanne Venker gave a rational take. She pointed out that after four decades of feminists screaming that women don’t need men, men finally got the message. They listened. They backed off. And now women are whining because the same chivalry they destroyed is gone.
Enter Dr. Wendy Osefo, or as she prefers to be addressed, Her Royal Highness, PhD. With every academic title she could pile on from student loan funded degrees, she still couldn’t grasp basic humility. She smugly proclaimed that women have “evolved” and now men must “rise to the occasion to meet where we are.”
Translation: Rise to my ever inflating level of entitlement, a level based on nothing but a delusional self image and an overvaluation of my own worth.
Let’s talk about that telegram. That man wrote with sincerity, love, and lifelong devotion. He loved his wife because she earned it. She didn’t demand it. She didn’t shop around for a man with a bigger wallet or a newer car. She stayed. She gave. She built something real. Love was not demanded like a product off a shelf. It was developed, nurtured, earned.
Today’s modern woman is the opposite. She demands instant love, instant status, instant comfort, and instant commitment. If you don’t wine her, dine her, entertain her, and pay her way, she’s gone, onto the next man with a higher credit score. She will demand marriage, then threaten divorce the second the spending slows down. And when she leaves, she’ll take half of everything.
She saves her money for herself, or worse, for the loser she actually lusts after while using the decent man to bankroll her lifestyle. She exploits men’s instincts to provide, not because she values it, but because she thinks it’s owed to her by default.
I wonder if she’ll teach her sons the same twisted logic. Should they “rise” to the levels of their girlfriends? Should they be the providers, protectors, and emotional dumping grounds while being treated as disposable? Good luck with that.
And let’s not pretend chivalry is some grand sexist scheme. Holding a door is not gendered, it’s called basic decency. Men hold doors for other men too. It’s a sign of respect, a gesture of dignity. But don’t expect that from the modern woman. Many of them walk through doors like royalty, without so much as glancing behind them. They don’t see people, they see servants.
So yes, chivalry is dead, and it’s women who killed it.
