My conservative teach wife is perceptive as well--and she sometimes agrees that maybe the sufferage movement should not have been universally applied!
A male lib became infuriated with me when, in the midst of a conversation about the difference between a lady and a women, he said (and assumed) that I didn't want a door held open for me. I, of course, corrected him. I told him not all females (ladies) want to be treated like men.