Gender Roles: The Effects Of The Feminist Movement On Relationships

"The Effects of the Feminist Movement on Relationships"

The feminist movement, an uprising of women who support feminism, has affected men and women's views of dating by taking the chivalry, courteous behavior of a man towards a woman, out of relationships. Chivalry is dead, and women have killed it against their own natural order of courting then later moving on to marriage. The natural order of relationships is shared between a man, and a woman with the man at the lead. During current times women want to be treated as equals to men in every aspect of the word. Women want to pay for their own meals, buy themselves flowers, and bring home the highest paycheck. Now that women have have taken the mans role of pulling the majority of the weight, what will men do in the backseat of their relationships? What happened to chivalry? Is it really dead? Chivalry has been murdered due to the effects of the Feminist Movement. These women, feminists, are the very same women who waited around for prince charming as children. That brand of chivalry that they once so very much longed for has been eliminated by themselves alone. Women, being just as
With these new roles and blurred lines future generations are changing. Feminist women are allowing this movement to morph into a new set of moral rules. Little do women know that one day their grandchildren will have no idea that a date is supposed to open the car door, carry an umbrella, walk on the side of the street closet to traffic, or even that the man is supposed to ask the woman's father before asking for her hand. These grey areas between the chivalry of a man, and the drive of a working woman have forgotten how things used to be. Times where every woman was a miss, ma'am, or madame are fast fleeting all due to women. These character traits that women once longed for in a men have been disposed of by women