going with the definition :courteous behaviour, esp towards women I don't see how doing stuff for someone else falls under that definition. Being polite and

going with the definition :courteous behaviour, esp towards women I don't see how doing stuff for someone else falls under that definition. Being polite and say offering to help(where help is understood to be less than 50% of the work) or allowing them the better half of anything shared sure. Out and Out servitude not so much. As far as Chivalry as the concept when the word came to mean the above definition, yes, and it was killed by women who were tired of being treated as inferiors. As always cultural norms change, being courteous has an entirely different set of connotations than it did three generations ago.