Rodney

I hold the door open for everybody. Used to work in high-tech, and the culture was for everybody to hold the door for everybody else -- probably started because a lot of the doors are security doors, and by holding the door open you save the next guy having to swipe his or her card key to unlock it. Security hates that, but everybody does it. And it carries over to all other doors.

I can't see anybody, man or women, not getting the door for somebody carrying a heavy object. The soririty girls that tritium is writing about are self-centered and expect things to be done for them without them doing things in return. They'll figure it out eventually, especially in a few years when they realize (to be blunt) that they can't count on being pretty to get by.

I've seen guys do the same, but they get judged more harshly and publicly, for reasons that I won't go into because that's a whole 'nother thread. I was once in Barstow, CA, (a nasty desert town full of Marines), and I opened a door for an old women who turned to me in shock, because (she said) young men don't hold doors for anybody in Barstow. I guess those young Marines haven't learned yet.