DZPlease wrote:
Although it was not necessary for you to defend me, I have to say that seeing a man's chivalrous instincts makes me feel warm all over.
Thanks for making me feel good. :)
Had I a wife around, and I weren't, I would hope for and expect the same ma'am, within proper and Catholic bounds of course.
Thank God though, for it's a duty, not an option.
Besides, it's likely borne of compulsion, and not chivalry. I don't deal well with nonsense or bullying; this isn't a matter of virtue, but more of psychology.
For instance, there's all this
talk of honor and nobility, but when it comes to
actions, we get things like a gang up on a woman.
In this instance, it wouldn't matter if you're a Jewess or otherwise; you are being polite, at least trying to be fair and reasonable, and are going out of your way to not be offensive, "hidden" and unproven motives aside.
Someone who is out of bounds, is out of bounds, married or not, Catholic or not, but people need to remember that if they're going to "give the business" to a woman, the
honorable and
non-cowardly/non-bullying thing to do would be to not speak to her any differently than if her male family were about; granted, if they were then it likely wouldn't, and shouldn't, get that far, but the point remains regardless.
We go by what is manifest, not by what may be.
But, to be polite, you're welcome ma'am.