For 40 years I’ve been hearing this crap, as well as the variant that women routinely chew out men who hold doors for them.
Through all this time I’ve always held the door for a woman whenever possible, and I have never once been verbally abused for doing so.
I have occasionally been amused by the female who sweeps through ignoring my courtesy as if she were Hillary, but even they are rare.
20 years ago we were driving across TX in a UHaul. Stopped for dinner. My 15 year old daughter was approaching the door and a handsome young guy in a cowboy hat and starched white shirt came sprinting across the parking lot, removed his hat and opened the door for her. She’s been partial to Texas ever since.
I opened a door for a woman once back in the 80s. She was a small overweight woman and the door was pretty tightly sprung. She called me a male chauvinist pig so I said I’m sorry I’ll do better as I released the door which knocked her down. She cussed me and told me to help her up. I declined and walked away.
Everybody in Texas opens doors for everyone else, men, women, children- it doesn’t matter. I’m a big, burly (ok, portly) man, and I’ve often had men open doors for me, and I often old doors open for other men- and we almost all say “Thank ya, sir” as we go through. We, of course, also open doors for women, of all ages races, and appearances. If they are attractive women, well- that’s just a bonus :)