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To: stripes1776
“His main issue is that he is a gentleman observing the rules of chivalry.”

So you think he was trying to have sex with her?

“His main issue is that he is a gentleman.”

Suffice to conclude it there.

‘Chivalry’ was a set of rules whereby married men could have sex with other women by acting ‘chivalrous’ during the Victorian era.

This wrestler is a good dude, like you.

9 posted on 02/18/2011 2:52:37 PM PST by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: Leo Farnsworth
So you think he was trying to have sex with her?

I doubt he'd find some sweaty huge masculine girl attractive.

It's more that he was standing on principle: that women should be feminine; and men, masculine.

And I applaud him for supporting the traditional difference between men and women.

Which difference I am sure is both physical, mental, and genetic--and not cultural--i.e, not a choice; a difference abandoned only from mental illness or genetic mutation.

18 posted on 02/18/2011 3:12:53 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Leo Farnsworth
'Chivalry’ was a set of rules whereby married men could have sex with other women by acting ‘chivalrous’ during the Victorian era.

Not even close.

This wrestler is a good dude, like you.

If that was an attempt at an ad hominen attack on me, you misfired.

33 posted on 02/18/2011 3:53:51 PM PST by stripes1776
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To: Leo Farnsworth
‘Chivalry’ was a set of rules whereby married men could have sex with other women by acting ‘chivalrous’ during the Victorian era.

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In fact, your definition could not be more incorrect:

From Wikipedia:

Chivalry is a term related to the medieval (Middle Ages) institution of knighthood which has an aristocratic military origin of individual training and service to others. It is usually associated with ideals of knightly virtues, honor and courtly love: "the source of the chivalrous idea," remarked Johan Huizinga, who devoted several chapters of The Waning of the Middle Ages to chivalry and its effects on the medieval character, "is pride aspiring to beauty, and formalized pride gives rise to a conception of honour, which is the pole of noble life."[1]

35 posted on 02/18/2011 3:58:46 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

The word has the same root as “chevalier” which is French for a knight on horseback, more or less. It predates the Victorian era by a thousand years or so at least.


36 posted on 02/18/2011 3:58:46 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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