Pictures of chivalry.

Rollo and Fabius Maximus both have new posts up with disturbing images.  Check out Rollo’s post Unconscious Contempt, and Fabius Maximus’ post Women are driving America into the future.  As you click over and view these disturbing images, keep in mind the chivalrous role the men are playing.  To be abused and humiliated by a woman is a great honor to the chivalrous man.  As Roger Boase explained (summarizing Gaston Paris, the man who coined the term courtly love, emphasis mine):

…the lover continually fears lest he should, by some misfortune, displease his mistress or cease to be worthy of her; the lover’s position is one of inferiority; even the hardened warrior trembles in his lady’s presence; she, on her part, makes her suitor acutely aware of his insecurity by deliberately acting in a capricious and haughty manner; love is a source of courage and refinement; the lady’s apparent cruelty serves to test her lover’s valour