I have just been watching TV where there was a discussion regarding benevolent sexism and how women can take offence to men who are chivalrous as it casts women as weak creatures in need of men's protection. This in turn can support gender inequality.
Some women take offence to a man who simply holds a door open for her!! Personally, I would call this manners! I would hold a door open for anyone and would expect the same despite their gender.
If I am out shopping with my hubby and he offered to carry the heavier bags, I ain't going to complain!!
Has it all gone too far?
in my personal life i like nothing better than a male taking care of me by taking the heavy bags and holing doors open for me etc. but in a work environment god help anyone who thinks i am the weaker sex just because of my gender. i am capable and able to do things as much as any male and wouldn't expect any difference to come between that and that includes the pay. there is a difference when it comes to work and personal life but it is a fine line and easily confused, best advice for a male is to be polite at all times and offer to do things no matter gender or age its only manners after all
manners mean a lot to most people, at work we have a kids club on a sunday and i fake deafness unless they use please and thankyou, these are the basic forms of manners and more advanced is holding doors open for whoever may be going through next, it does not matter gender its manners, and if we dont teach the kids from the start then they wont have any in their future. i do however think that some manners are out dated such as standing when a woman walks into the room and pulling out of chairs.
i remember about a yeer ago now when i was on a under ground train and offered my seet up to a lady. the look i got from her as she said no made me feal horrid. i will not do that again.
some women seam to want it all ways and as men god knows how we ever work them out.
yes things have gone too far with this silly pc nonsence
I hate HATE people assuming I am weak, useless or incompetent. I was backing out of a parking spac in our local shopping mall, and an old bloke started signalling how I was to maneaouver. What the hell did he think I had done the other 5000 times I'd backed out of a space - waited for a competent man to come to my rescue? What an insulting idiot!
I love people helping if I ask, or obviously need it - like the person who comes over in a shop when I am looking for something and asks if they can help. That is good manners and (I hope) nothing to do with the location of my reproductive organs.
I love helping people, giving directions, holding doors for the next person. and I have brought my son up to do the same. Yes, there is a risk of a rebuttal - that's their loss. But I would hope that I never waltz in and act like a complete stranger is a dribbling incompetent.
It isn't about gender, I do hope that these gentlemen who hold doors, carry bags and give up seats, for women would be equally happy to do it for anyone on crutches, clearly hobbling with arthritis and pushing a pram.
(PS I lift my own heavy weights, if it's too much I get help to join in)
Damned if you do and damned if you don't!
No change there then?!
A man and a woman are approaching a door. The man quickens his step so that he arrives at the door ahead of the woman so he can hold it open for her.
She retorts "There's no need to hold the door open for me because I'm a woman"
He replies, "Madam, I'm not holding the door open because you are a woman, I'm holding it open because I am a Gentleman".
That's the difference. The sexist tarts can go fuck each other for all I care (and they probably do, frequently!). It is quite correct and proper for the male gender to have proper respect for the female gender. No wonder society as we know it (or rather, knew it) is in such as state.
I blame Harriet fucking Harman. She's the tart that started it all.
Bring back images of Maggie having a piss in the Gents below stairs at the Palace of Westminster :lol2:
On the other hand, look to the street cams in many high streets across the UK on a weekend night with women pissed as farts falling all over the place and tell me that they can justify being treated like ladies!
The world has gone mad!