Holding Doors Open (Doing my Part to Stop Feminism)

Sorry that I haven't updated in a while, things have been pretty crazy.

Originally, this was going to be a post about the night my grandmother died. Writing it down really did help, however, I don't think I need to share those details.

Then, I decided that this should be a post about all my thoughts and feelings about my grandmother being gone. Once again it helped and I feel I don't need to share those details either.

So instead, you get this. Enjoy :)

About three to four weeks ago I went to Borders to go find a book about automotive repair. I'm at the entrance to the store and I hold the door open for the woman behind me. Before entering, she stops and just looks at me and then rolls her eyes.

"Women aren't as meek and helpless as you men think we are, you know," she tells me.

"I'm just trying to be courteous, no offense," I tell her. She rolls eyes and stands there. She stood there for an eternity before I realized that she wanted me to enter first so that she could open the door for herself. I entered and laughed it off.



Now fast forward to today.

Today I took my youngest brother to the movies. As I'm about to enter the theater, I hold the door open for two older women who were behind me.

"Oh my goodness, chivalry is not dead!" one of them exclaims. Both of them are just so impressed with me.

I don't think chivalry really ever left. Just like sexy.

One of them grabs my arm and tells me, "I'm kidnapping you from your girlfriend, she is never gonna get you back." Both of them proceed to then tell me about how they rarely ever see young men with manners and how my girlfriend is the luckiest girl in Hilo.

The situation was pretty awkward and depressing--those ladies could not stop touching me and would not shut up about my lucky girlfriend, even after telling them I had no girlfriend.

I'm just trying to be courteous. I know what it's like to walk into a door just as it closes because some jerk decides to hold it open for those few moments that I'm walking towards the door and then let it go without any warning. Man or woman, old or young, I don't care--walking into doors suck. I'm not trying to put progressive women into their place and I'm not trying to be chivalrous, I just don't want my door slamming into anybody's face.

Just trying to prevent this from happening.