03-11-2006, 06:28 AM
DeeBye,Mar 11 2006, 01:17 AM Wrote:With all of this gender equality stuff floating around, I don't even know if it's okay for me to hold a door open for a female. Sometimes I get yelled at :(
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If you don't do it, you are crass and have no manners. And a woman can and will call you on it. Wait till there is an argument or a disagreement. "You can't even hold open a door for me! You don't love me! Blah blah blah! You have no respect for me as a woman!"
If you do do it, you are sexist. "What, you think I can't even open doors for my self?"
The last time something was said to me when I opened a door I calmly and casually replied that she should stop flapping her gums and show some courtesy to all of the women behind her that she was holding up. She turned beet red and tried several times to come back with a witty and hurtful barb. I gently reminded her that she was still holding up traffic and added my own witty barb, that it was she that was blocking the forward progress of women. There were some giggles and titters. She raised her hand, I think she wanted to slap me. She was most furious.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."