Some contemporary female role models:
Posted on 08/17/2010 9:58:42 AM PDT by lakeprincess
I suspect it will. Those early formative years are so important. I can remember my sons opening doors for women when they were young. Sometimes the women would not say thank you. I always told my boys that it’s ok, you still did the right thing.
Some contemporary female role models:
Exactly! I remember back in the '70s every TV show pushed "women's lib." I recall an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where she asked her boss for a raise and he said no. Mary pointed out that a male coworker did the same job she did and got paid more, and the boss replied, "Well, that's different, he has a family to support." Back then, you could get away with paying women less on the assumption that they "didn't have a family to support." We all saw things like that on TV and thought, "How unfair." So we all became "feminists." It seemed like simple common sense back then...equal pay for equal work. But it turned into something so much bigger and uglier! When I see feminists on TV now, they only seem to care about two things...abortion and gay rights. They seem so angry and hateful, too. I don't think they speak for most women.
Your brush is overly broad. I don’t know what other reasons there may be that you can’t find an American woman to suit you, but blaming an entire gender in one country sounds more like you don’t want to look very hard at yourself
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Good on you for saying so.
The only times I have ever seen a woman get pissed off for an act of chivalry is when it is followed up with a sneaky peek down her top, or leering at her butt as she walks away.
Don’t get me wrong, as they say, I’m married not dead, but some of my gender are about as subtle as train wrecks when it comes to checking women out as they walk by.
I told an attractive female colleague one time as we were walking between the buildings on our corporate campus, after 3 guys walk by, stop, and turn to check her out, that if their eyes had been lasers, her a$$ would have been on fire. Yes, I knew her well enough to say it just like that.
Well put!
I open every door for my wife, I never let her lift anything, I always take care of her, it took 42 years to find her and I won’t lose her.
I do the same thing. I will open a door for my wife or any other woman. I had one feminazi tell me she was fully capable of opening a door, even though she had two boxes in her arms.
A couple of months ago, I pulled a chair and held it for a young lady to be seated in our mess hall. She was totally shocked that someone would do that for her.
A man opens a door for a woman, and she turns to him and snarls,
"Did you open that door for me because I'm a woman?"
"No", he gently replies. "I opened it for you because I am a gentleman."
Amen to that!
The Guess Who beat Lenny to it by decades.
I definitely know. The other day my husband helped move a television of a girl friend of mine. Not wanting him to carry it in himself (he would, too) I employed the help of a friend to go with us (he had no plans on doing this) by a sweet “please”, pretty eyes, and when I saw him crumble, kissed his cheek and said, “Thank you”. My girl friend hi-fived me for it.
Women should take care of themselves when they have to, but if you don’t have to, remember a sweet please and thank you will go far to getting what you want.
I am not defending them, because they should be able to realize that they wouldn’t like a door slammed in their face, but I have to point out that these young women were probably not properly raised. Young humans have to be civilized and socialized. I think it is something that is not being done as much as it was in the past.
Of course, the Washington Times is required to follow equal pay laws, so its opinion just recapitulates the law. The feminist media monopoly is government-backed.
Good manners never debase the giver.
However just as manners are a statement, a statement of NOT REWARDING uneducated and purposfully cluless louts is a valid statement.
When was the last time you saw a crew of paris hiltonites give up their seats for an elderly couple? rare if ever.
How about in a quick stop restaurant where the uncouth man continues to wear his hat when his age says he should know better.
Good manners should never be allowed to be used as a leverage against the practitioner.
You could be like the guy on one bus I was on, who would tell the other guys to give their seats to the mother with the four children. I don’t know who was, but I think he was an angel.
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