[dmz]

I stopped holding doors for women after a thousand times doing it and getting no acknowledgment whatsoever.

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I’m a 52 year old man. I’ve never held the door open for women.

I only hold the door open for people.

I always get acknowledged. Where are you looking? At her butt? Her chest? I look them in the eye and smile. Try it sometime. It works.

[bill1952]

I look them in the eye and smile. Try it sometime. It works.

That was the Free Republic Pretentious post of the Day.

[KC Burke]

Correct.

I remember about five weeks after my son went off to College he called saying he just wanted to thank me for teaching him manners and common courtesy. He related how he had just experienced about the fifth instance in as many weeks of women students meeting him, or having interaction with him, where they noticed his mannered courtesy and general nature and those young women had immediately introduced him to their room mates and others in thier dorms based upon those critical first impressions.

Sure, there are ideologues out there with an ax to grind that no interaction will prompt a civil response, but the civility I do for my own conduct, not out of obligation.