It’s back! That’s right, the horrible man-hating feminist so angry she cannot function in the real world with even the likes of the chivalrous Neil Cavuto:
Ladies, if a guy holds a door open for you, do you like it, or feel patronized by it?
The reason I ask is that I did just that for a woman, leaving a building Thursday night. She was not pleased.
“Do I look paralyzed to you?” she asked.
I was so taken aback that I didn’t know what to say, or even what she was saying herself.
She went on to explain how I had just earlier stepped out of her way on the elevator to let her off.
I just assumed it was the gentlemanly thing to do. I guess I’m a bit old fashioned. But she was not and she clearly wasn’t into “gentlemanly.”
When I recomposed myself, I had to follow her.
“Excuse me,” I asked — now feeling every bit of my offended macho Italian roots — “but exactly what bug got up your butt?”
“Treating me like I have to be coddled,” she said.
“By opening a door?” I asked.
She went onto explain the door thing was part and parcel of a bigger thing: An attempt by men, she said, to make women feel like they’re lesser.
It made me think and it made me worry.
So let me ask you, ladies: Do you find it offensive when some big klutz like me opens a door that I’m patronizing you, or, in the case of this young woman, “offending” you?
Roxanne nails it in the comments of Michelle’s ASV, who commented on the story while buying into the myth.
Roxanne says:
I think Cavuto is making that story up because he was having a dry writing day. I consider myself a feminist and I’ve never said or thought anything like the situation Cavuto describes. And I’ve never heard of a woman in real life doing that, either. It’s all part of a feminazi mythology, one part in a series of urban legends that get repeated over and over until people believe that it actually happened. Next he’ll be writing about children being abducted in KMART, hair dyed black in the bathroom, and sold on the black market in Mexico.
I don’t think opening a door for someone should have anything to do with gender. If you’re at the door first, you hold it open. Duh.
Whoever gets there first opens the door. It is as common a courtesy as saying please and thank you, and I don’t even care what you have in your pants.
The biggest clue to Cavuto’s “dry writing day?” He doesn’t even have to mention the word “feminist” or “feminism” but I’ll bet nearly all of the commentary he received on his show was on the nature of feminism and the death of chilvalry. Even Michelle neglects to explicitly mention feminism, except through the pejorative “feminista,” but nearly all of her comments on her post address, you guessed it, feminism.
My favorite part is where Rox’s legitimacy is questioned due to anecdotal evidence, countered with, “Oh yeah? Well this happened to me once, so Cavuto is telling the truth and you are not.”
Extra special highlights include the spots where readers suggest that all the young lady in question needs to do is a) get laid, and b) shave her moustache.
I sprained an eyeball from rolling them so hard.