i think i will put this song on my phone and play it out loud whenever i hold doors well in advance: is it modern cruelty?
Anyway this is super silly so I'm gonna merge this with the old thread and retag that one as JCC, to keep all the lulz concentrated. We don't want leakage. That would be bad.
and lock the senate thread as the opening shot in the final battle to excise from the face of Community the unsightly skin tag that is the senate?
Oh, goody - now that it's JCC tagged I can stop biting my tongue and reply: I would want ANYone of either gender to help defend me in such a situation.
I hold doors open for men and women, mainly because it is polite. As for this entire topic... I laughed, I cried, I facepalmed, and I wish I had popcorn. Bravo!
Well, I'm not speeding up when the person holding the door open is far ahead. A real gentleman/gentlewoman will wait until I get there at my normal pace. (Or if not, why did they bother with holding the door in the first place, when they saw I'm too far behind?)
Chivalry =/= keeping women from doing jobs that are perceived by some to be 'dirty', 'nasty' or 'immoral'. If Chivalry is defined as opening doors, shouldn't that include doors to equal opportunities in the work place?
You're in the wrong thread. The place to post quote unquote "serious" metaphors is that other thread on this subject. It's marked Senile Senate.
Chivalry's a BS code anyway that was given to a bunch of murderous thugs so they wouldn't be murderous thugs. It's hardly the be all end all of how to act 'properly'.
I hold the door for everyone, often until it gets to the point where I magically transform into a lawn jockey and I start saying "Thanks for shopping at..." since the crowds in this city funnel in like cattle. When I hold the door for a particularly slow/maimed/elderly person, I will hold it as long as necessary, but will make sure to point out pertinent life quotes to them, such as "No good deed goes unpunished" or something similar.
