Posted on 08/18/2006 1:45:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'WOMEN ARE equals now. They can fend for themselves. To offer a perfectly healthy woman a seat simply because she is a woman, however well-intentioned, is creepy. At best, she'll think you're from another country; at worst she'll feel old, or overweight enough to be perceived as pregnant."
And that is a lesson in modern manners, according to the new issue of GQ (with Clive Owen on the cover). Glenn O'Brien and other GQ scribes weigh in on e-mails, cellphones, gym etiquette, dressing for travel, how to handle chatty seatmates, sleeping with your friend's ex, online dating, wedding gifts and how to treat gay people: "Gay people don't want to freshen up the world, they just want to be a part of it." (So don't ask for makeovers and fashion tips.)
Oh, but you certainly should open doors for women: "Why? To be nice, you mannerless ape!"
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You know, there really is a male pecking order. I'd never looked at it that way before. I suppose someone could get a federal grant to do a study on this phenomenon. LOL ;)
Darn, makes me almost wish I wathched the Sopranos! ;)
susie
???????? I, and everyone I grew up with -- Mexican American, Black, Asian and Arklahomian -- knew enough to address adults as sir or ma'am as well as Mrs. Jones or Mr. Smith if you knew their names.
I do my studying while waiting for a table at I Hop:')
We went out and ate tonight. I opened the door going in. My husband dropped me off at the entrance to see if there was a waiting line. Coming out he opened the door. We went to the van and I looked at him and asked him how come he didn't open the car door for me anymore. He grinned and said I did. "Huh"? He held up the clicker and said "see, it was locked. I opened it for you. Now get your butt in the car". Modern chivalry:')
One day though, I held the door open for a man as I left a gas station. He looked at me and didn't say a word. I let loose of the door just as he walked past me and it hit him in his behind. He grabbed the door and said "Well!". I told him the next time someone held or opened a door for him to make sure he said Thank YOU.
It wouldn't hurt some women to meet the door occasionally either.
Your working conditions sound horrible. LOL ;)
:)
LOL! Well, what he said wouldn't be so bad if he'd said, "....Now get your sexy butt in the car". ;)
My only exception is if I see a clear bull dyke reeking of an anti-male 'attitude' or lesbian/liberal issues and pride, I don't even offer. They can stand for as along as I care, even if it means corns and bunions for them. Why even bother being insulted by rad-fem-libs for merely being a decent human and gentlemen to those particular dimwits who have left society in my estimation and do not deserve an ounce of my consideration?
Well, I certainly don't disagree with you but I doubt I could actually bring myself to doing it. lol
I'm allowed though:')
Any lingering doubts I had about dubbing New York City the Big Sh*ty vanished when I began to read about what passes for 'manners' as seen by Big Sh*ty denizens.
"Doesn`t GQ stand for Gay Queer?"
Either that or Gutless Queenie! LOL!
If it is the right thing to do, which it is, why should it matter what others think? Just do the right thing.
Until they figure it out and let the rest of the world know, I'll limit my trivial chivalry to holding doors open that I enter first - just as I'd do for any man or child.
Sad.
Carefully... You could end up in Freeper lore as the guy who liked to oggle bossoms (instead of ogling bosoms).
Personally, I favor The Golden Globe Awards, myself. ;-)
I don't believe you're telling the whole truth in your narrative. Conservatives don't pull chairs from beneath others causing them to fall.
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