I feel strongly

that subway seats should be given up to pregnant ladies, people with strollers, old ladies, old men, kids and women. Yes, I said it.
My defense:
I've always considered myself a feminist if for no other reason than for as long as I can remember, it has been drilled into my head that women are just as good as men. When discussing anything related to women's rights, my mother's voice raises and her angry pointing finger comes out. I like that about her and I agree with everything she and (almost everything) that Ani DiFranco has to say.
I'm passionate about and fascinated by the issue of gender. In college, I took extensive women's studies courses in college, much of my writing was influenced by gender and at times, I even consider The Awakening to be my favorite piece of literature. But that doesn't negate my buried belief that women should take a seat before men on the subway. This seems to go against everything I've been taught and everything I believe in, implying that women are weaker, more fragile, delicate beings that need to rest while men can tolerate the swaying, the jolting, the jerking and the crowds of the subway. But I don't think that. At all. I think I just like to sit.
And here it comes: I look down on men who don't offer their seat to women (see: Judgement). And if they don't give it up to any of the people listed above, I mean, really?
It is that a man thinks a woman will be offended if he offers her his seat? I can see it now on the 6 train: "you think I need to sit just because I'm a woman?"
If chivalry is dead, it's only because we killed it.