Was it ever alive?
I mean, let's question this for a moment shall we?
We lament gentlemen no longer having common decency/manners for things like holding open doors, or offering a coat on a cold evening, or I don't know using "please" and "thank you" while listening attentively to a conversation like any common sense polite adult.
Whilst they were supposedly doing these things at one point in time though they also apparently felt they did not need to give women things like the ability to have their own bank account, the right to vote, equal pay/wages, the right to hold public office, the right to advance to the higher ranks of priesthood/power in a religious organization that literally preached to my best friend from high school that women existed solely for the purpose of ensuring their men got to heaven (women apparently got in only by proxy - and yes, those were Christians).
Then when these things slowly changed over a snail's pace of time (American women couldn't open their own bank accounts without a male's permission until 1974, kids!) men apparently couldn't be bothered to keep up the old good manners because they were too grumpy at having their sexism checked, damn.
So....truly? Is chilvary dead or have we been allowing polite adulthood to hold us back from being actual civilized decent fucking human beings who treat each other with some actual fucking respect?
Thank you for reading.
*bow*