[BenLurkin]

Only in the increasingly barbaric urban areas would this common courtesy be considered "creepy".

[Peach]

This is absolute BS. All the women I know love it when men act like gentlemen and stand when they enter a room, pull out their chair, open their doors, etc.

I've never known a woman alive who thinks that good maners is creepy.

[JimSEA]

I'm elderly, they'll just think I am senile (likely correctly).

[apackof2]

On the other hand.....

[gridlock]

As long as you're not offering her a seat on your lap, I think you're in the clear...

[pbear8]

Not offering a lady a seat is creepy - PBear

[rockabyebaby]

What a crock O'crap!

[eyespysomething]

Or, like me, give the gemtleman a nice smile, say Thank You and graciously accept.

[SamAdams76]

I had my wife ask a gay neighbor for his opinion on drapes she was thinking about buying for the dining room and also his opinion on whether her purse went with her dress. Also, when I saw him the other day, I asked him if my T-shirt made me look too fat.

Hope this wasn't considered rude.

[leda]

just an excuse for poor manners?

[Sam's Army]

"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.)"

I can't remember the last time I honestly thought GQ was a "Man's" magazine. Prolly about the last time I watched SNL and thought it was funny.

[brytlea]

'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."

I would like to see a poll. I doubt this is the case. I'm a prefectly healthy woman (ok, a little overweight and yeah, getting a little old) and I am not offended when a man offers me his seat. What I think is, "Wow, a guy who has good manners, he must have had a great Mom!" And, I will certainly offer my seat to someone if they look for any reason like they could use it better than I. susie

[ElkGroveDan]

To offer a perfectly healthy woman a seat simply because she is a woman, however well-intentioned, is creepy

But a man donning eye makeup and false breasts is trend-setting fashion.

Can we re-wind this world to about 1946 and start again?

[Paperdoll]

Few things glorify me as a woman more than when a man opens a door for me, stands up when I enter the room, or offers me his seat.

[Thrusher]

I guess I'm a creep.

[The Black Knight]

When I was a student at UNC Charlotte three years ago, and I held the door to a girl who was walking up. She mouthed off that "She didn't need a MAN holding the door for her". I just smiled and waited until she walked in.

I was in a hurry, so I actually ended up walking even with her as we approached a stairway. I just couldn't help stopping and saying "Ladies First".

I'll never forget the daggers that came out of her eyes. Just one of many episodes that caused me to date Asians.

[Screamname]

Well actually what I do if I am in a restuarant near a chair and see a woman about to sit down, is I ask her who she voted for last election. If she says Bush, I politely pull the chair out for her, let her sit, get the waiter for her, ask her if she needs anothing else, then tell her it is not often I get to serve such a beautiful woman, then I kiss her hand.

If she says Gore or Kerry, I pull the chair out then out again so she misses, then tell her sorry, I couldn`t tell if she was sitting or standing because of her fat.

The best was last week when I ran into this old lady with a walker who was wearing a Kerry button. I swear, when she fell on her arse, it made the sound of a squeak toy. Her family started screaming at me, so I pulled the "Sorry, I no speak a the English" routine.

[longtermmemmory]

only a metrosexual or a homosexual would not open the door or offer his seat for a lady.

Even a neadertall would do that much. Then again GQ is not much of a MAN's (in the heterosexual sense of the word) magazine.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

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.

[puppypusher]

If a guy does everthing 180 degrees against what this magasine says he'll do just fine. Who are the morons that makeup the staff of this magasine and what says they are qualified to make these inanane statements.

Come on guy's be yourself.