Daily Archives: December 13, 2012

Chivalry Is Not Dead

December 13, 2012
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Chivalry Is Not Dead

There was a time back in the day, as they say, when treating women with respect by opening doors for them or “women and children first” was de rigueur. There was no confusion about social custom when it came to how men treated women. The feminist movement that became popularized in the 1960s changed all that. By the 1980s a man didn’t know if he should open a door for a woman, carry her groceries, and offer to pay for a meal, or help her…

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Labels: What Are They Good For?

December 13, 2012
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Labels: What Are They Good For?

There is a strain among certain traditionalist conservatives to eschew the use of labels. It’s not so much that they don’t use labels, or they wouldn’t call themselves traditionalist conservatives, but they seem to fear that labels are not only not helpful, but positively deleterious. I think the problem with labels as they see it, are that they tend to dehumanize and are used in a way to dismiss others who don’t agree with you.

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