Researchers say chivalry is sexist. Men who smile and hold doors open for women are engaged in “benevolent sexism,” according to Professor Judith Hall of Northeastern University in Boston. Egad, the horror of it.
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I hold doors for everyone, female, male, old, young, white, black, Latino, Asian, whatever. Does that make me ageist, sexist, racist?
makes you a good person.....
If a man doesn't treat me like a lady I want nothing to do with him. I don't believe in making all kinds of excuses for males to stop being males and respectful.
I have NEVER had a lady complain when I have held a door, allowed her to go first, nor all the other common courtesy that I was taught growing up. If some one that appears to be a female ever does complain about my courtesy, I will tell her to go f*ck herself. So much for courtesy.
Hell they been harpying on about that for almost 40 years, I thought.
I hold the door for everybody but the militant Feminazis, those douche-bags I slam the door and stick out a foot to trip them.
Held the door open for a chick at the gas station a couple of months ago and she farted as she walked through the door. Thought it was one of the funniest things I've seen (heard) in a long time. Equality is a beautiful thing. She was not bad looking either....
Maybe she wasn't farting. Maybe she was flirting with you.
That only works in San Francisco, look out for the Adam's apple however.
I should have answered with a rebuttal.
Clever riposte.
Manners are not sexist. There are things that a man should always do, such as walk on the outside near traffic, he should open a door, allow a lady to go first. Ladies like this, trust me.
"There are things that a man should always do..."
And there are things a man should not do. Like for instance when the two basset hounds surprised me by coming around the corner of the garage that time, many years ago, and I instinctively jumped behind my girlfriend. Hey, it was instinct. You should have seen the look that earned me. It made me wish for the safe harbor of the ravenous basset hounds.
Ladies like it, femanazies ore NOT ladies.
Ok, I will go along with that...
Okay, lets have Feminazi's wear an arm band so we can tell who they are, when they approach do not talk to them, do not make eye contact, hold the door closed, if they drop something let them pick it up, don't hold elevators, make sure you drive through a puddle and splash them, if they are broken down by the side of the road leave them, if you see one getting robbed turn and walk away.....Treat them as if they do not exist......
They'll also call you a sexist if you did not hold the door for that s/he at Planet Fitness
Oh good grief, modern etiquette is confusing enough with all these hairy feminists marching around prepared to express umbrage at the slightest sign of courtesy, please don't start talking about the proper etiquette for dealing with transgendered and semi-transgendered and potentially-transgendered-but-still-possessing-their-hoo-ha-parts kinds of people -- my head will explode.
How about when I get to the door, I turn to the female-ish looking critter behind me and shout, "Hey asshole, do you want me to hold the f***ing door or not?"
So I have had women bitching at me so much over the years to get me to be a benevolent sexist? Here I thought that was just giving them more equal treatment (like so many of these f**king sexists beg for).