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'''Female sex favoritism''', sometimes known as [[chivalry]], [[gynocentrism]], or the knightly treatment of women, has a long and storied past, here is its history. | '''Female sex favoritism''', sometimes known as [[chivalry]], [[gynocentrism]], or the knightly treatment of women, has a long and storied past, here is its history. | ||
[[File:The Rescue of Guinevere.jpg|400x400px|right]] | [[File:The Rescue of Guinevere.jpg|400x400px|right]] | ||
== Possible evolutionary basis == | |||
As a result of their greater [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], women have evolved to be [[sex drive|choosy and passive maters]]. In addition to that, there are more fertile men than there are women in their prime fertility years, plus men seek to monopolize women early on for the purposes of [[paternity assurance]]. For these reasons, women, especially young women are naturally the highest goal men compete for and hence there is a natural tendency for women to be treated special and to be put on a pedestal. The extent to which this is actually done is however, largely determined by culture. For example, many religions regard women as [[female subordination|inferior and hide them]] from the public, possibly largely also for the purposes of [[paternity assurance]]. | |||
==Birth - Late French Middle-Ages== | ==Birth - Late French Middle-Ages== | ||
What we know now as unequal chivalry, sometimes called [[gynocentrism]] or [[white knight]] behaviour, arguably only began on a societal scale in 1102AD in France. | What we know now as unequal chivalry, sometimes called [[gynocentrism]] or [[white knight]] behaviour, arguably only began on a societal scale in 1102AD in France. | ||