Chivalry requires a lady worth being a knight in shining armor for. Some of
my definitions of ladylike behavior:
- maintains health, both physical and mental
- can handle five minutes of tough going without collapsing in tears
- can relate to men as human beings, and for bonus points, knows a thing or
two about understanding them
- can be trusted, i.e. says something, it's her, therefore it's true
- is a mature grown up trapped in the body of a nubile beauty rather than the
other way around!!
Sadly such women are in critically short supply.
Meanwhile, Perceval got done for sexual harassment, Gawain got nailed in a
falsified date-rape charge, Lancelot got cheated on by Guinevere and lost the
castle in the settlement and is now drunk in a hotel room somewhere, Galahad's
holding down three jobs to pay for child support for kids he's never met
because their mothers got his name out of the phone book and then wouldn't
allow DNA testing, and well, gee, there don't seem to be any knights in
shining armor left