Galateria is a kind gesture of courtly origin expressed, generally, by a man towards a woman. The gallantry of a gentleman in Goya's painting The Umbrella. Museo del Prado It can refer to both an action and a phrase and is considered an elegant form of seduction and the prelude to courtship. It is synonymous with kindness, delicacy, attention, courtesy, gallantry and a gallant spirit or attitude.
Gallantry was born in France and that ancient gallantry of elegance of intentions and manners was misused by libertines of all European courts to achieve their conquests (women were not angels either). But we are interested in the present and what it means to be a gallant man today.
Personal relationships produce frequent comments since throughout life, people establish bonds by forming relationships. There is a very positive quality that reveals a fundamental social skill: the kindness of treating the other person with respect, showing a detail of kindness for them. In general, this concept is generally associated with masculine gallantry in a man's kind treatment with that woman he wants to seduce or with his partner.
That is, from this point of view, gallantry is an attitude derived from love or the desire to conquer. The person wants to be the best version of himself before the other, to be attractive, since the desire of each loving heart must be reciprocated. You want to make a good impression.
The gestures of the gallant do not vary: it is a tradition. What can vary is the way of understanding it by both sexes. On the part of women, they are often offended by misconceptions about feminism. On the male side, we must try not to touch the ideas of machismo imposing itself here and there like a possessive bodyguard.
The successful gallant is one who performs these small gestures in a totally voluntary and natural way. When it is forced, done without desire or by obligation by what they will say, it loses all meaning and charm.
The initiatives and movements should not be abrupt, but gentle, not flitting around like a nervous woman rooster, or frighten her for being too impulsive or effusive, but controlling the situation, taking his time. Nothing more attractive than a man sure of himself and what he does.
