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Do not ever claim that Chivalry is something that will get you the ladies, and don't say that we live in an age where Chivalry is dead. The guys who swore [i]actual[/i] oaths to [i]actual[/i] chivalry (which included [i]religious[/i] vows, ye "chivalrous" atheists of Fedoria!) hacked kids apart in the crusades, peppered the land with their mistresses and bastard children, and more than one of them probably considered Jew-killing a state sport.

Chivalry is a concept that was upheld by very few people, it never had its own age, and most of it was just the King's way of saying "Let's give each other some good PR. Just promise not to pull a Macbeth, keep the laborers happy, and don't be an asshole at parties. Get it? Got it? Good. Here's some land, go kill those goddamn Frenchies".

We live in an age that's just about as polite as the last ones, but this time around (and many other times around since) we call people who pretend to be polite in public and gut their enemies over old feuds sociopaths. You should be a nice guy, yeah, but the nobles who were doing their business in more intimate juices than George R.R. Martin could portray without his eyes watering were drowning in pussy not because they were chivalrous, but because they were rich, famous, drunk, and knew all the cool poems and war stories. Basically, they were rock stars, but they could also murder you in the streets on the off chance that their interest wasn't reciprocated.

If you're upset that no one opened the door for you, then be honest about it and actually say that you're an egomaniac who can't possibly open the goddamn door for themselves. If you're upset that no one's going out with you, be honest and say that it's because you don't have the courage to talk to people. After all, honesty and courage are two of the chivalric virtues!... Also being ready to violently defend the honor of your homeboys.
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