The Birth of Equality and Death of Chivalry"...And now it's time for girls on the trampolines!" The Man Show's Adam Corolla screams at the end of the vapid program supposed to offer men 'manly' entertainment; “We give men what they want to see.” This show involves beer drinking at its finest, childish antics involving dwarves, and the degradation of women in many forms. It seems that chivalry is truly dead. In women's continued quest for equality, the respect and reverence with which they were once treated has changed. Technically, chivalry is defined as the moral code of knights of medieval times, that is: dignity, courtesy, bravery, generosity and bravery. This was the manner of respect with which women should be treated, and a knight should always uphold the code. One can imagine courtly ladies walking around the courtyard in beautiful dresses and asking a chivalrous knight to lay his coat on a muddy area so that the ladies will not ruin their shoes. These days, if a kind man stands a second longer at a door to hold it open for an approaching woman, she may be surprised by this display of courtesy. The hand on the door, or the coat of mud, is and was respectively the mark. of a refined man. “Conscious mastery of fine manners, whether the proper way to hunt, dress, address a superior, or woo a lady, became a key mark of an aristocrat”( 20). In literature, “despite the limits of their real power, women were at the center, often venerated, of much of the best imaginative literature of the 12th and 13th centuries…” (18). Although chivalry is linked to medieval times, Edmund Spencer wrote about a chivalrous knight in The Red Crosse Knight of The Faerie Queene...... middle of paper ...... taken out of the country imagination and entered into reality. For some, this was too far from reality, Swift goes so far as to describe the lady's chamber pot: "...he lifts the lid: he doesn't need more, he smelled it all the time time before" ( ). A virtuous man would not dare embarrass a woman by revealing the secrets of her wardrobe. With the respect that women were just beginning to gain as thinkers, respect for sweet ideal perfection diminished. She was no longer a mystery to be venerated. As men have come to realize that women are capable thinkers, the need to respond to her in a different way than men has become less necessary. If women are so equal, they can defend their own virtue. In our time, most men have understood that women can reason as well as men, and that women serve in almost every position held by men. It is assumed that we are equal, which led to the death of chivalry..