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 :)
I agree 100%, and I’m not even a Texan, except by aspiration.
Any such rules of etiquette should be modified by common sense. I’ve seen ladies (using the term loosely) obviously expecting men encumbered with packages to open the door for them.
Read an interview once with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali lady who pisses the jihadis off so much.
She had been raised in fundamentalist Muslim society, and didn’t know men anywhere in the world treated women with respect. One of the things that convinced her to run away from that world was seeing a random man in the Netherlands hold the door in the airport for a random woman.