Why do feminists hate Chivalry?

I think it is about a lack of self-esteem and self-worth, a constant paranoia, that kind of thing. I'm not sure.

I'm a woman and I love it when people hold open doors for me. I try to never open my own doors, actually, lol. But I will also hold doors open for other people if applicable.

They don't your just thinking of stereotypes. All women no people including feminists like when people open the door for them. It shows you are polite and caring. I open the door for people all the time. My roommate is probably the personification of feminism has a boyfriend that is super Chivalrous he opens doors, is super polite and stuff. Women don't like when you do that kind of stuff because you think you should "protect them" they like it when you are polite. There's always going to be psychos that no matter what you do they will find something wrong with it. I had a friend who said bless you to some who sneezed and they went off on him because they were atheist eve though he was just being polite. So in short some people are crazy.

You mean the fringe radical feminists who hate all men. Not all femisnists are radical like that but the most radical of them probably have low self esteem and use the feminist movement to identify themselves to cover up for that low self esteem. The same could be said for any radical. They usually have low self esteem and need to identify with a movement bigger than themselves to feel 'complete'.

It also comes down to the fact a lot of them have GIGANTIC chips on their shoulders and feel like accepting help from a man would degrade them. Usually it's only the white college feminists that are that most radical. At that age every person thinks they know everything and have all the answers to the world's problem, when in reality they actually don't and are just shallow and superficial people who are no better than those they claim to hate.

I agree women deserve respect as humans but they don't deserve to think they are somehow special when thay are not. When people believe in any doctrine of supremacy, it leads to conflict with other groups and would probably explain a lot about why people hate each other so much. Both men and women need to respect each other's rights and not infringe upon others and everyone will be good. Until that happens the world will be in constant chaos and there is nothing we can do about it.

PS: A lot of white college feminists don't even know that a lot of early feminist thinkers were horribly racist, homophobic, and only interested in advancing the rights of white heterosexual women. Also, a lot of them tend to be insensitive to the plight of non-white women around the world as they are too wrapped up in themselves and their personal agendas to even care. You tend to hear a lot of black and latina feminists raise that issue quite often as it is still a problem.

Feminists always get horrible stereotypes and representations, its even frowned upon now if you say you are feminist. I consider myself to be in the middle, so somewhat a feminist i dont know any 'official' or hardcore feminists so il only answer from my view which is a bit complicated.

First and foremost i think women deserve to be respected, we are the heart of humanity - we carry the children and give birth, risk a lot more than men to keep humanity alive and just for that, we should be respected, I hate the sexualisation of women, which i think makes some women insecure and can lead them to be 'promiscious' in order to be seen as the same 'level' as men which then goes back to women being used as sexual objects - vicious circle. It is very very sad when a man cannot respect woman. That said, i am also quite traditional in the sense that i believe in chivalry - men to be gentlemen and respectful towards women, see us equal and not inferior at the end of the day i think those are some of the values that feminists hold, but see chivalry as 'patronising' whereas i dont mind at all, in fact i like it :)

Although you probably don't think of it, do you know where such "chivalrous" acts came from? From the idea that "women are too weak and too stupid to do anything for themselves (except, of course, to cook, clean, and have children)." I doubt most feminists get upset about a males who gets to the door first keeping the door open, but once I saw a man almost fall over (I'm not joking) in his zeal to be "chivalrous". (He literally RAN to the door, tripping over his feet, to do it. That's just silly.)

ps Some other things you might not be aware of: the idea of breaking a bottle of champagne over a ship's bow took the place of the barbaric "catapulting an unbaptised bastard baby against a ship"; people who decorate their kitchens with pictures of geese with ribbons tied round their necks usually don't realize that the goose with a ribbon tied round its neck was to signify which goose was going to be dinner that night; Christmas tree garland is an imitation of a dying Druid's way of disemboweling himself and walking his intestines around a pine tree "to transfer his or her soul into the tree".

You ask a good question for which Im not sure I can give an answer.(You see,I too am one of those "horrible males"who belive in opening doors for women!Shame on me!)My best answer would be that many feminists take accepting ANY sign of kindess by a male as some form of weakness.And of course,they pride themsleves on retaining power in all situations.

there just scared