All you rude men should be ashamed of yourselves. Regardless whether or not they’re Obama supporters, idiots, or whatnot, you should hold the door open for them.
I read a comment at a very young age: “I’m not holding the door because you’re a lady, but because I’m a gentleman.” I practice it to this day even if it’s someone I don’t like.
By lowering yourselves to their level, they win, and you lose. You lose a part of manliness that is being a gentleman, and you further help coarsen our society. They win. Don’t play their game. Open the damned door, and say good morning. Smile too. Making the country a better place begins in YOUR life, in YOUR heart. Politics be damned. BE A GENTLEMAN.
All my life, I’ve opened doors for ladies, stood aside to allow a lady to enter a room before me, and done everything I could to defer, as a gentleman, to the opposite sex.
It’s how I was raised. I have never, in my entire life, had a woman protest for being treated well in my presence and it really wouldn’t matter to me if that ever happened.
Psychologists abhor the idea that there is a biological life to humans beyond armchair intellectualism. As such, they equate biological programming with “social contrivances”, created as intellectual oppression of one group against another.
For this reason, for example, they reject monogamous marriage as a social contrivance, artificial, unnatural and deceitful, despite its profound and obvious biological advantages to men, women, and especially their offspring, far beyond just animal reproduction.
So it should be no surprise that they also reject chivalry, neglecting the basic biological fact that women are more important than men, biologically, that beyond men’s role in creating genetic diversity, their essential purpose is to protect and assist, as well as provide for women and their offspring.
Other than that, women’s role in reproduction and child rearing is so important that men perform many other roles, because they are available to do so. Yet priority is always to women.
The “pedestal”, as it were, is a “safe nest”, and men are only free to do other things when this is assured, otherwise they are in error. Many men have a strong natural response when they perceive that women and children are at risk, either from an acute danger or a chronic one, the lack of prosperity.
And imagining it all as a social contrivance changes nothing, even if changes are forced they do not last, and accomplish no good ends. So they are frivolous and harmful.
People analyze everything way too much and act like civilized human beings too little nowadays! Both sexes!
Being old and gray, but fantastically active and wise male, I am very often rewarded with a door opened or held open by a much younger female.
I smile and say “why thankyou” and pass through. Both our days are made more pleasant.
OTOH
There is a flyer for a movie - From what I have seen, mostly Blacks in it (not that there is anything wrong with that) that had a ‘skit’ where this guy pulls up in a flashy sports car, blows his horn (he LOOKS rich etc), she. who is quite a looker, comes out and makes a statement along the lines “Any guy that dates me will come to the door etc..”, He says “OK”, slams the car in gear and takes off.....
Most men here probably don't even consider or take notice of women being rude in response to their gentlemanship. Or they quickly shake it off knowing that more are appreciative than not. I guess once you've faced the North Vietnamese or the Taliban in battle, a feminist's rudeness or lack of respect is almost pale in comparison.;)
Feminists hate chivalry and gentlemanly behavior. they probably hate that when I walk with my wife, I walk on the curb side.
New rule: when south of the Potomac, I hold the door for a lady, because odds favor that she is one. North of the Potomac? I'm sure you can get thru the door while carrying all those packages...MEN do it all the time. Careful with those eggs, honey...your partner doesn't want them scrambled until TOMORROW morning.
I’ve been holding doors open for women for over 30 years., since my mid teens.
I tend to be polite and hold doors for men, the elderly. Pretty much everyone.
I’ve never encountered any problems from anyone I have ever held a door open. Never happened once, and I do it several times a day. Maybe, 1,000 times a yeat or over 35,000 times since I started.
And that is the reason why feminists do not understand chivalry. They incur no penalty for being rude, obnoxious, aggressive; in short, everything they purport to despise about men. That sort of wallowing in ignorance may be a lot of things, but liberation it is not.
“My femenists ideals fall somewhere between ‘equal pay for equal work’ and ‘I will not sleep with you if we split the check’.”
The "women" in the area are so rude, I got tired of opening doors only to receive a scowl or worse.
Now, I let the door slam in their faces. They can FOAD.
Chivalry ain't my job anymore.
"I'm not holding the door because of your sex, I'm holding it because of your age,"or
"I act like a gentleman even when a woman doesn't act like a lady."