I would like to know where all the gentlemen are in this city!?
Waiting for the bus the POLITE thing to do is let the ladies on who are standing beside you, not pushing her aside to rush on. Or if you see a girl standing while you are sitting in your seat… GET UP and let HER sit. Allow her to get off the bus before you, rather than her standing and having to jump into the moving line pushing her back and forth. Opening doors is always a nice gesture too… We do appreciate the kind things men do, too bad they are too far and in between! 🙁 —MissesKINDmen</p?
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.
Fuck this bitch. I’m a “lady”, and I think it’s rude for ANYONE to push ANYONE regardless of what genitals they happen to have been born with. If someone pushes me, I’m pissed. But I don’t attribute it to a lack of chivalry if the person happens to be a man, I attribute it to that person (male OR female) being an asshole in general.
Also, it’s polite for ANYONE to hold the door open for ANYONE, regardless of genitalia. I hold the door open for men and women… inter-sexed too for all I know!
And it’s fucked up that a woman would feel entitled to a man’s seat on the bus just because she has ovaries and he has testicles. It’s not rude for a man to not offer up his seat to a woman anymore. If you are seriously offended by this, you are in the WRONG DECADE.
You should listen to yourself, you sound like a pathetic, fragile, superficial, entitled, sexist, bitch.
Oh and on the flip side, to all the women that get offended when a man offers up his seat, or lets you go through a door first… fuck you too, you’re just as bad and doing the exact same thing.
What? Yeah, I hold doors open for anyone, let the elderly take my seat on the bus, etc…but it’s expected I give up my seat to any young, able woman who happens to be standing on the bus? No, fuck off, my ride is a long one and the response I’d likely get if I offered my seat up to anyone not disabled would be one of bewilderment and creeped-outedness.
You can blame Gloria Stienmen (sp) etc. You want equality? Then you get the bad with the good.
It’s polite to do these things for anyone…not just women.
Snoop beat me to it haha
I’m pretty much with snoop on this one.
Rydycyl Fymynysts didn’t kill courtesy – they just pissed all over it and called it a political statement.
Actually Radical Feminists got us the right to vote, own land, and legally be considered “persons” under the eyes of the law.
Thank god for that! I sure wouldn’t want to be without those rights.
I agree that holding the door for someone should have nothing to do with gender – just common courtesy.
When we expect different treatment, we are asking to destroy any efforts at equality.
Most feminists I know want equality which means equal rights for men and women.
I too am with snoop on this. Courtesy is courtesy, but if I see one more female get offended when a man opens the door for her… errrr… beware the wrath of the BlackRose! grrrrrr!
Sexist bitch.
Spunky little suffragettes like Nellie McClung helped get women their rights. As for bilious buttpugs like Greer, Steinhem and Dworkin, equality was the farthest thing from their minds. I hold doors and give up seats out of courtesy. The knowledge that are still some antediluvian feminazis out there who are pissed off by this is a karmic blowjob.
Some of the “gentlemen” are still out there…..but because of all the asshole pricks, the gentlemen go unnoticed.
I sure haven’t seen any women get offended when a door is held for them.
where’s the sense in that?
I mean, certainly we know you CAN open a door….
it’s not like it’s a babying gesture. It’s just friendly courtesy.
I’ve seen four in the last three months. Two that stood out: one girl just stood with her arms crossed staring at this poor guy at Scotia Square. Another was at a restaurant. Two couples, one older. Elder gentleman held door for his wife, then waited for the younger woman to enter. She snarled something and vaulted through the door. Her date and elder gentleman just kinda looked at each other in wonder. You’re right zeethree, where’s the sense in that?
Chivalry is dead and feminism killed it, pissed on it’s corpse, burned the body and shit on it’s ashes.
Courtesy, manners, responsibilty. Those are the truly “revolutionary’ acts these days.
So true Never Wrong… Anytime I try to open doors for women these days I get ignored (they’ll choose the door I’m not holding open), I get rolled eyes, sighs, signs of exasperation! Fuck that, open your own doors “ladies”…
Radical feminists, got us here yes, but now we’re here and it’s time to chill out and set your sites on problems with equality that are relevant to today.
I think where some feminists go astray is that they see feminism as a one way street. We are sensitive to all the unfair sexist things expected of women in society, while oblivious to all the unfair sexist things expected of men in society. They may not be rooted in the pasts more drastic inequality as it is with women. But they do exist, and if feminists are really for equality they can at the very least recognize that sexism exists against men too.
I work a labour job and am on my feet all day in work boots. The way I see it is the nicer the clothes the less you stand at work.
Do you know how many times I’ve held the door for someone just to have the bitch or asshole walk through? Dozens that’s how many. Open your own fucking door.
You want polite? Turn off the cell phone on the bus. Turn down your music so I can’t hear it. Shut up so I can have a nice quiet relaxing trip to work.
I’ll say Thank You in advanced.
I always give a sincere thanks when someone opens a door for me. It’s called “manners” and WAY too many people don’t have any these days.