I don't see that remark as being Alan Alda (ick!)-like at all.
It's always good to see that there are still plenty of decent men who are secure enough in their own masculinity to be gentlemen.
I believe the very title of this thread was almost an invitation to giddily humorous posters. ;0)
Even as a teenager, I saw the overly sensitive and effete ways of folks like Alan Alda and Phil Donahue as being pretentious attempts to proclaim that they were morally superior. This was kind of a precursor to PC.
As I grew older I saw men employ this technique of pretentious sensitivity to get “other things” that they wanted from women.
“there are still plenty of decent men who are secure enough in their own masculinity to be gentlemen.”
Amen. And this is what my father taught me, he was kind of quiet, but tough and certainly a gentlemen. I think this is certainly something that we ought NOT take for granted and pass along to the next generation (I have an 8 year old boy.) There’s a lot of nonsense put forth in today’s culture which seems to diminish the ways of masculinity and gentlemanly behavior.
A young man should feel good “behaving like a gentleman” and he will find himself happy to find himself situated with a woman who enjoys being “treated like a lady.”