[goldstategop]

I'll still offer my seat to a woman - I was raised to be a gentleman and I could give a damn if she feels insulted by my display of chivalry. If she's outraged enough to burn her bra, let her but I won't stop doing the right thing because the perception is that its politically incorrect.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[thinking]

For centuries, women were accorded special consideration, because of motherhood, childcare, and the need to maintain the fire in the cave....however, today, women have rejected motherhood, and child rearing, so IMHO, they forfeited their special considerations, and can open the door on their own

[eeevil conservative]

GQ- the most important literary contribution in America...

only wussy men read that trash anyway...

[Hoodat]

GQ obviously is not circulated in the South.

[Makehaven]

I haven't trusted anything from GQ since Hemingway died. Reckon I'll go out just the way I growed up... an antiquated, dyed-in-the-wool Gentleman. Young ladies can take or leave it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

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

It will be taken that way by a certain class of women, and these are not in fact angry feminists most of the time. A fair number of women are so narcissistically enamored of themselves that they interpret every gesture, word, or action by a man as an attempt to hit on them. If they happen to to be angry that day (usually about something else) they will snap at the man holding the door or offering the seat, especially if he is one who doesn't fit their criteria for physical appearance in a man (Brad Pitt never has this problem...) Their anger is not about "You chauvinist pig, I can open my own doors!" it's about "You pervert, what makes you think you can hit on me!!!"

This is why such reactions occur ten times as often in Los Angeles as they do in Texas - they come more often from the narcissists than from the feminists. So GQ's advice is spot on - if you live in L.A or New York.

[Professional Engineer]

It would the magazine needs to change its name.

[hosepipe]

Liz Smith evidentially does not like being respected...
DONE....