Carey Roberts, Plagiarist April 28, 2006 Jill Well this certainly sounds familiar. If I was Carrie Lukas — or Harvey Mansfield — I’d be pissed.
Ah, chivalry….If you call it good manners it means you have to be nice to evrybody, even people who you don’t find fuckable.
Funny thing is, I still use the term chivalry, but degender it. I’ll hold the door open for most anybody and don’t expect others to do so for me unless I’m encumbered. [I’ve even made up my own rules for right-of-way when two people reach a door simultaneously, based on ability, encumberance, and inclement weather..] And if I guy looks askance at me holding a door for him, I’ll shrug and make a point of equal opportunity chivalry. They generally seem to get the clue.