MODERN MANNERS (Offering a Woman a Seat Is 'Creepy,' According to GQ)

New York Post ^ | August 18, 2006 | Liz Smith

[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!"

[Stultis]

Sexual Harassment And YOU!

[TaxRelief]

We just returned from a trip to Disneyworld, and it was the absolute norm, on the shuttle buses, for all women to be offered seats by men. Furthermore, women with small children were even offered seats by women.

[weegee]

Definition of "Creepy". Sitting next to the Big Creep.

Snake on a plane...

[RosieCotton]

Dang...

Send in the creeps!

[Sue Perkick]

Personally, I think if you want to know the opinions of gay men, GQ would be a pretty good source.

True. Cosmo for men.

[JamesP81]

I think it takes a lot of courage these days, I have heard women lash out or suggest that the man's motives were less than respectable. Pathetic.

It's why I usually just hold the door. That's relatively low risk. As for helping ladies with groceries or something of that sort, I tend to restrict it to people I know at least a little bit. Offering to help like that can literally get you hit with a restraining order and a purse, not necessarily in that order.

[longtermmemmory]

Does Ford advertise in GQ as part of their pro-homosexual marketing?

(/s)

seriously, the fact that a "don't ask/don't tell" pseudo-men's magazine would be so anti-gentlmen WHEN IT HAS GENTLEMAN in its man is not just creepy, it is commerically suicidal.

Stick a fork in them, they are finished.

[sittnick]

I have never seen a copy of GQ in a real barber shop (not unisex). Men's magazines are about cars, hunting and fishing, firearms, poltics and computers. There's one other category that is employed by socially and morally immature men.

It's a man's job to treat women with the respect do to her sex whether it makes her feel "creepy" or not. Someone's got to take charge here, and it ain't gonna be panty-waisted metrocs at GQ. (The real ladies will thank us for it later)

[FReepaholic]

...according to the new issue of GQ ...

I don't live my life according to what a magazine tells me to do.

[sittnick]

do=due

[Reaganesque]

Creepy Girl (as sung by Tom Servo, MST3K)

Lyle Waggoner's a total jerk,
Second only to Tommy Kirk.
Could you find it in your heart
To love a 'bot like me-hee-heee?
That fishy story you tell
Always makes me slee-hee-pyy,
But that's just what I get
For dating a girl that's cree-hee-pyyy!
My Cree-hee-py Gir-hirl!

Oh, "C" is for that feeling of uncertainty for not quite knowing what ethnic group you're from. "R" is for the gifts you give me every time you smile. The first "E" is for--uh, well, I don't really know. But the second "E" is really a grammatical thing 'cause otherwise it would be "Crepy Girl," and where would that leave us? The "P" is definitely not for "platonic." And "Y?" Because I love you!

My-hyyyyy--!
Cree-hee-py Gir-hirl!

Oh, what are you Creepy Girl? Are you French, Italian, or one of those swarthy Gypsy-types? Haha. Well, you're accent suggests a romance language, but I can't be sure. Oh, we can definitely rule out a Germanic language. But it's okay! I am a 'bot without a country. All I know is that I love you! I want to shout it from the mountain tops! Uh, but, I'd have to get back down to Earth and actually CLIMB a mountain. Or they could just drop me off on a mountain. I don't care! That would be okay, because I just--need--YOU!

My-yyyy. . . Cree-hee-py Gir-hirl!
Won't you be mi-hee-hiiine?!
I'll give you scrolls and fish
And tinker-toys and wi-hee-hiiine!
I'll ditch these guys
If you'll be myyy Cree-hee-py Gir-HIRL!
Be-hee mi-hine before
Moo-hoo-vie si-i-i-i-i--hi-i-i-i-i-ign!
Whooo hoo yoooo hooo!

[Spktyr]

You were saying? :)

And no - I don't buy GQ, either.

[HHFi]

I remember the late Mike Royko wrote a column years ago, when feminists first started attacking chivalrous manners. He argued that men should always allow women to exit the elevators first and go up the stairs first because it was not only good manners and a sign of respect, but it allowed the men to get a nice long look at the woman's derriere. See, good manners pay!

[Paperdoll]

>Guess what she said?<

LOL! Apparently that woman was no lady! :o)

[HamiltonJay]

Gee, maybe not reading GQ is why a guy who has hair on his back and doesn't have a 6 pack abs can still strike up conversations with attractive women.

You keep telling your readers that crapola, please GQ... let em believe that women don't respond to politeness and kindness and want a man who views them as nothing more than a guy with a vagina and bossoms.

[Cecily]

Men do that here in Atlanta too, and if they elevator is full they hold the door so it won't start closing on anybody. Remember to say thank you, ladies. We appreciate gentlemen with lovely manners.

[pax_et_bonum]

I like the manners in Texas

Me, too.

Most Texas men are gentlemen and we Texas ladies appreciate it.

Thanks, guys.

[FJ290]

I guess I'm a creep.

Me too.

[DoughtyOne]

Come on admit it, haven't you found GQ kind of creepy from the get go? Well, I have...

[dinoparty]

I have several friends who are partners in large prestigious law firms. They get offended if men are not chivalrous. I think they are typical of women outside of NOW members.