Treat Her Like a Lady: Let’s Bring Back Chivalry

Treat Her Like a Lady: Let’s Bring Back Chivalry
Detail, "God Speed!" by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900. Public domain
Jeff Minick
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You’ve finished a lovely dinner together, enjoyed a bottle of wine, and now you’re walking through the restaurant’s parking lot with your date, Maggie, who last week won her black belt in karate.

Suddenly a big man, cursing, clearly intoxicated, and fist raised, lurches toward you from the shadows. Do you 1. duck behind Maggie, who is smaller than you but trained in hand-to-hand combat or 2. step in front to protect her?

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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