Seriously. Where are the guys that open car and building doors? The men that pull out chairs and stand when a lady enters or exits a room? Where are the guys that walk on the outside of the sidewalk? I need to know what happened to them. My dad did those things so it cant be a concept too far removed from my generation. I see couples out and the guy will open a door and walk right thru it, barely holding it open with their fingertips for the girl to get thru. They seat themselves before the lady even makes it to the table when theyre out to dinner. I look at these things and I wonder why he was never taught the things my brothers were taught (even if they dont always practice it). But I guess all the blame cant be put on the man or even his parents. If women dont expect these things they wont be done for them. When you as a woman walk thru a door being held open by your boyfriend or husbands fingertips, youre telling him thats okay. But why has this become acceptable behavior to us? (About to get off subject) We raise so much sand when our boyfriends dont take us out or occasionally buy us things but we dont care if they have manners? We dont care if they behave like gentlemen and treat us like ladies? Why? When and why did we stop viewing ourselves as worthy to have our chairs pulled out for us? It seems like such a simple act to me. All chivalrous acts seem that way to me. Opening a car door for his girlfriend wont emmasculate a man. Having a seat pulled out for her wont make a woman seem like “the weaker sex”. So why not just be ladies and gentlemen?
Well that’s a thought. I liked that she brought up the fact that women don’t demand or ask for it nowadays. You can’t get mad at your man for not fixing what he never knew to be a problem. Speak up, doggonit.
