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The "rules" of courtesy may have been written in a different time, but that doesn't mean they are obsolete. Equal rights has nothing to do with courtesy.
I always offer my seat to a woman, if she chooses not to take it fine. But it was the "rule" that I learned as a child and my father would come back from the grave if I wasn't courteous.
This is where some people get off about our society going to hell because we've given up on courteous behaivors. I differ with them. Societal rules will change, but I will live by the rules I grew up with because they are part of my value system.
I trained my children to follow those rules too. Now, I'm working on my grandchildren. They may behave differently when I'm not around. But when I'm there, they live within the rules of courtesy that I learned.
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