What happened to chivalry?
There is this perception that women today are treated with less chivalry. I always consider chivalry another form of kindness. I am optimistic and a bit of a romantic, so I don’t like the idea that women are treated with less kindness in today’s society.
When I am on Marta, I still see men giving up their seats to women and children. I still notice men taking up for their women if they notice any signs of disrespect. So when people ask what happened to chivalry, I like to answer with another question: What happened to kindness?
Do you believe that we are generally less kind to one another? If women are treated with less chivalry, do you think men are less appreciated?
How do you define chivalry? Do you think it is necessary and needed?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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SexyCool
November 17th, 2011
3:04 pm
NeNe might be able to afford sponsorships if enough dumbasses buy that $150 t-shirt she is selling.
SexyCool
November 17th, 2011
3:05 pm
Oh…and her real name is Linnethia.
SexyCool
November 17th, 2011
3:07 pm
I watch the Braxton’s show as proof that the Men In Black premise of “aliens among us” is very real.
Art does imitate life.
Kym
November 17th, 2011
3:07 pm
@Kimmie..see this is proof we are totally damaged..I love this song!!
disco
November 17th, 2011
3:09 pm
kimmie – I’d say you got jokes but I guess it’s just that you don’t know me. I don’t watch the reality shows but I’m vaguely familiar with who ne ne is. problem with her as a sponsor is I wouldn’t respect her. I’d try to act right but it wouldn’t be a good look for me to be fighting my sponsor. I’ll never get out of the program. naw… I need ruby dee, toni Morrison, maya angelou or somebody to keep me in check.
funny. i didn’t realize i still had an active imagination.
DreamsMaterialize
November 17th, 2011
3:10 pm
disco and Kym May I suggest Grace Jones as your sponsor? She’s the only chick I can think of off top that’ll keep ya’ll in line. lol
SexyCool
November 17th, 2011
3:10 pm
Nicole Ari Parker looks like she has had another nose job.
kimmie
November 17th, 2011
3:11 pm
4 Real – I got some fluffy boots. I will not be wearing them with skin-tight pants though!
Kym
November 17th, 2011
3:12 pm
@kimmie I was gonna assign you to Nancy Wilson.
@disco..I am gonna have myself two sponsors..Oprah and Dianne Carroll
kimmie
November 17th, 2011
3:13 pm
disco – I am so totally joking. Actually those women you mentioned would be too sensible. Why, with them as an influence and sponsor you just might be able to change the world!
Into the Light
November 17th, 2011
3:14 pm
I think I’ll take Ms. Patti LaBelle as my sponsor. Next time someone says hello to me in the elevator, I’ll throw a bottle of water on them and tell them to make their bratty kid behave.
kimmie
November 17th, 2011
3:16 pm
Kym – Now that’s ironic. My mom’s best friend/my play aunt’s late husband was a first cousin to Nancy Wilson. She keeps in touch and always contacts my aunt when she is in town. Talk about a nice, classy lady!
Into the Light
November 17th, 2011
3:16 pm
(waving out my office window) Hey, For Real!!! I see you over there in the Macy’s parking deck.
Into the Light
November 17th, 2011
3:17 pm
Kym/Kimmie – Now “Teach Me Tonight” is stuck in my head.
Love that song.
disco
November 17th, 2011
3:17 pm
well I was joking and not joking. with nene as my sponsor we might have torn DSW up and been on an episode of cops or tru tv’s most shocking or something. mess around and end up wearing orange jumpsuits and plastic shower shoes and wouldn’t that be ironic.
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
3:18 pm
Disco…Kesha Cole mum sounds good for ya mama..
she ghetto like u and ur mama
she hard like ur folks
she smokes and dranks like ur mama
she been to jail
She older
if u act out she handle you like she handle any other hood people
Now that’s a match for your azz!
kimmie
November 17th, 2011
3:19 pm
disco –
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
3:20 pm
Oh she got Reality tv money so she ain’t broke broke
sure good enough to sponsor
disco
November 17th, 2011
3:22 pm
sniffer – that was funny but she’s not old enough to command respect from me. to me she’s just another hood chick and since she’s NOT my momma if push came to shove she ain’t nobody to me. and since you brought up my family status I’d like to shout out my auntie who just got out of jail yesterday… big ups auntie and this time don’t cut your ankle monitor off.
Kym
November 17th, 2011
3:22 pm
@kimmie she always appears so classy but you just know there is a undertone of don’t make me slap you in there.
@disco..you could get Mary J Blige for a sponsor.
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
3:27 pm
how long was auntie in jail for?
what ?? she stole somethangs?
Anyone else with Jail Shout outs?
lawdy lawdy
For Real
November 17th, 2011
3:28 pm
Thanksgiving dinner at disco house…..
Big Mamma: Okay yall we gon say grace but ferst I need for everyone that’s holdin to put you ish in dis basket.
kimmie
November 17th, 2011
3:34 pm
don’t make me slap you
You guys are cracking me up today!!!
disco
November 17th, 2011
3:39 pm
there have been some good cracks on here today. y’all are funny.
auntie just did a few months in county for PV (she cut her ankle monitor off). she is now out on work release.
funny about the thanksgiving thing because my mother and siblings went to visit my uncle in jail once and when they had to empty pockets/purses they had a small arsenal of knives, straight razors and mace. fond memory – my mom gave me my first box cutter when I started junior high school. about a year ago my brother came to visit and he was riding with me and attempting to open a new cd. he asked where my knife was. when I replied that I didn’t have a knife in my car he side eyed me and told me I was getting soft.
Kym
November 17th, 2011
3:42 pm
@Disco..I love it..my family not quite that hard..with the knives and such..but we have quite a few light-fingered, hustler in the bunch..my uncle once stole lawn mowers from the local hardware store and sold them to everyone in the town. And I do believe we had our own family cells down on Rice Street and over there at Dekalb County..but I digress.
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
3:44 pm
Disco?
u ghetto,hard but a realest chic
we don’t get many like urself…just confident in yr damn self…that’s so admirable.
(u got any kush…u smoke)
U live in a small city in NC or u in Charlotte?
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
3:46 pm
Lol @ Kymn!
disco,I had a fight once with Kym on the blog and she promised she wld send her people my way..
Lol
u remember Kym?
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
3:48 pm
What a funnny read the bottom of page 4 and all of page 6.
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
3:50 pm
Meant, bottom of page 5.
@disco ~ I actually pictured you and NeNe going head to head with the mouth and then a knock down, drag out fight in the middle of DSW!
Kym
November 17th, 2011
3:52 pm
@ the african..Did I really? I must have been mad that day..
Kym
November 17th, 2011
3:53 pm
@disco..just hit NeNe in her throat..take out that Adam’s apple and he/she will go down.
Kym
November 17th, 2011
3:58 pm
And I don’t know why Ne Ne try to play hard..she is from Athens..ya’ll have a good night..
disco
November 17th, 2011
3:59 pm
kym – not that you said y’all got your own cell block. that’s too much. my first “real” adult job was working at the county jail. I didn’t work that job long for obvious reasons. inmates were telling me they used to change my diaper (possibly true, they were my mother’s friends) or asking me to tell so and so this that and the other when I see them. heck I had family, friends, exes all up and through. nope. that job wasn’t going to work for me.
sniffer – I’m quite real with mine. no point in doing a little something for yourself and then trying to get brand new and forget where you came from. I know who I am and I’m cool with me.
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
4:01 pm
Lol
I tell ya,u need a good positive attitude on this blog
Otherwise u slap that screen trying to punch some jokker!
I have (innocently) caused my fair share of angst on here..with threats like,’if I see that Mandingo live,I call ICE on him’ lol
Sassy Me...Black Koffy no Sugar no Cream ;-)
November 17th, 2011
4:01 pm
about a year ago my brother came to visit and he was riding with me and attempting to open a new cd. he asked where my knife was.
My brother and I are both like that….he keeps a knife on his person at all times and I keep blades of several types strategically placed on my person, in my car and around my house just in case I gotta bust somebody down to the white meat.
At my old job my lab team would sometimes ask me for my box cutter to open packages n such when they couldn’t find the one that belonged to the company….don’t judge me.
A woman’s gotta protect herself..
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
4:06 pm
@Sassy ~ I have two knives in my car, a steel bat by my bedside, a knife in my bathroom and 3 strategically placed in the rooms downstairs.
Into the Light
November 17th, 2011
4:08 pm
I keep blades of several types strategically placed on my person
Why did I get a mental image of Pam Grier hiding razor blades in her afro???
SlimNu
November 17th, 2011
4:08 pm
Leggs – Daaaaaaaaaaamn Gina. Your whole crib is a Panic Room
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
4:11 pm
Lol
the gangsta is outa the woodwork!!
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
4:12 pm
Which chic got guns?
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
4:12 pm
@SlimNu ~ I’ve always lived alone and had knives everywhere in my apartment. Never owned a gun, but will get one. Once my ex moved out, I went back to my old habits. Not only that, I don’t leave any knives in kitchen dish drainer. I won’t provide a culprit with a weapon.
Sniffer!
November 17th, 2011
4:17 pm
@Leggs?
so where do u keep table/kitchen knives over nite? other than the ’strategically placed’ ones?
Sassy Me...Black Koffy no Sugar no Cream ;-)
November 17th, 2011
4:17 pm
Exactly Leggs…I have a bat right under my bed. It’s a miniature Braves bat with some tape around the neck for grip…it works. I went to a strip club once and for whatever reason didn’t think they were gonna search my purse…when security said I have to check your bag m’aam I let him look and when he found it, he looked at me like
Of course he said we gone have to take that…I said cool I have several more…and left him watch me walk away still looking like 
My friends laughed at that for a while…
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
4:18 pm
Well, not my own knife.
disco
November 17th, 2011
4:19 pm
see… I didn’t happen to have a knife in my car but there was one in my purse (my purse was in the trunk). I have a little miniature souvenir baseball bat in the pocket of my car door for head busting. I do have knives throughout the house (got that from my grandma) and I just got hip to hornet spray as a weapon. got that little tip from a radio call in show. apparently it has a trigger nozzle and sprays like 20 feet. I’ve made a mental note to get some. just got my gun purchase permit and thinking I’m going to get myself one for Christmas. I was looking at kel-tecs but who knew there were so many options when gun shopping.
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
4:19 pm
@sniffer ~ kitchen knives are put away, steak knives, butter knives, plastic knives, forks and spoons are put away.
Sassy Me...Black Koffy no Sugar no Cream ;-)
November 17th, 2011
4:20 pm
Never owned a gun, but will get one.
I’ve wanted one for years but my family REALLY doesn’t want me to get one because they feel I don’t have the proper attitude for one….I agree and that’s why I haven’t gotten one. Buuut I’ve got a birthday coming next month sooo we’ll see.
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
4:20 pm
@SassyMe ~ yes ma’am. Have to have the tape to secure a good grip!!!!
Leggs
November 17th, 2011
4:24 pm
@SassyMe ~ I said I was going to get a gun years ago. Went shopping for one, but never purchased one nor took lessons to learn how to shoot. With mine going off to college, I will definitely get one because that damn cat will be hiding in the closet right along with me!
SlimNu
November 17th, 2011
4:24 pm
Leggs – Guess you can never be too safe.
Sassy- I used to have one of those Braves Bats too that I kept under my bed. I have no idea where that thing is now but I do keep a box cutter on me