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I read the posts in this thread a while back and didn't feel I had anything to say that hadn't already been said, then something happened that made me post in here today.
I sprained my ankle last week and spent a couple of days on crutches. The first day I was entering a building and saw a woman and a man coming the other way through the door. I opened the door and stood back so they could get through. (Which is no small feat with crutches) Neither of them acted as if they noticed that the door had been opened for them, much less by a gimp. Roughly the same scenario repeated itself 3 more times that day. Not one person offered to hold the door for me, despite the fact that I was on crutches and nobody thanked me for opening the door for them even though it was a great inconvenience to me to do so.
I wasn't looking for thanks or help or attention, it is simply second nature for me to hold doors for anyone, without regard to sex.
Anyway that got me thinking about this thread. Is chivalry dead in society? It's highly likely. Is courtesy dead in the general population? It seems so. Have they died within me? Not on your life.
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