This reminds me of the time I (female) held a door open for a man and he refused to walk through it. I should have given him a Billy!
On the other hand: when guys do stuff like this for me BECAUSE I am a woman, I want to give them a Billy too. Being female does not make me incapacitated and I can handle my own door/chair/coat. Grrrr.
Wow, I so had to comment on this. Now that's out, I feel a whole lot better. (All this irritation is probably just part of my inferiority complex due to being unreasonably short and young looking XD )
One half of me, the raging feminist, is going, "FUCK YEAH! FUCK CHIVALRY!" but the other, more prevalent, reasonable side, is saying, "He was just trying to be nice! It has nothing to do with the fact that she's a woman! Don't hit him!!!!"
Here, in the Southern region of the U.S., everybody holds the door open for everybody. It's genderless, mostly. Every once in a while you get a man who politely comments that he should be holding the door open for YOU, but that's uncommon now.
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It's girls like her that ruin chivalry for the rest of us.