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 ...
Ping for later.
That's exactly my point - why waste your time with losers, lol.
"There is nothing worse than trying to be gentleman to women in a liberal hellhole city like Seattle.
Half the time I open a door for them, they look at me with this digusted look as if I'm opressing them."
HEY HEY HEY...I am in SHoreline...
You can hold the door for me ANYTIME!
And THANKS!
well we do have good vaules give me a good southern woman any day of the week.
Have really enjoyed reading all this. Glad to know that good manners are alive and well. The sad thing is that many of the young today are not being taught good manners.
It would only be considered creepy if you were ugly because it is automatically taken as a sign that you want to have sex with the female in question. If you are a good looking man that is a different situation entirely.
I haven't read it all. Well, I must say, my parents brought me up right - God bless them.
Now I'm going to have to ride over to my friend's house at 3:15 in the morning to get my copy of "The Meditations". Just to see the exact wording of the quote.
Well, maybe I'll just go to bed. Yeah, that sounds much better.
cool. :)
Well, sure you may run into a few of those femnazi types, but most women I know still like to be treated with courtesy and like a lady. I know I do! Even in the business world it is still considered correct to either offer your seat to the woman in the room or go and bring an extra chair. In my case, I often can't move an extra chair for myself, I'm very petite.
Things I don't expect...if I walk in late on a meeting I sure hope nobody gets up...I don't want to be noticed at that point. LOL
ROFOL! Ever since then, I have been much more alert!
Thank you, ma'am.
Sorry, but I think mothers are generally the ones who teach manners. Father's may reinforce them, but women civilize little boys. And, when my boys, even as adults, show bad manners, I tell them that it reflects negatively on ME.
susie
Well, there were another 30 people and many ladies including two who were pregnant. Fortunately they got the seats. I saw couple of gentlement surrender their seats, but many who did not and I saw several elderly women standing and one father with a young daughter who stood with her sleeping on his shoulders. I told my son to give his seat to a younger girl and he did, then the father picked up the girl and sat her on his lap and my son got to sit again immediately.
In my eyes, my 9YO son is more a man than any one of those young men who sat while elderly woman stood. My hat goes off to all those who stood without taking a seat even when they were available. There was a decent number. Enough to feel pride in my country and feel we still raise boys to be men, not scum.
Bless you. :)
I would offer a seat to Clive Owen....:^
A young man held the door open for me at the community college last week. He probably thought I was a professor (I'm over 45), but it was a very sweet thing to do. His mother taught him well.
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