Yeah, it is pretty silly.  If I get to a door before someone, be they man or 
woman, I'll hold it open for them, just because it's the polite thing to do. 
And if someone holds a door open for me, I'll thank them.  I don't like it 
when someone twenty feet behind comes running up to open a door that I'm 
reaching for, but I'm not going to get all militant about it!  <grin>

Peggy
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rhonda" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:07 PM
Subject: such silliness my Gender class


I’ve heard it all now!
My Sociology Of Gender class seems to think that if a man holds a door open
for a woman that indicates he thinks she is inferior in some way.  It is a
symbol of a man’s  thought.  My goodness! I said couldn’t we just be nice to
one another?  It would get so  that a personwould even think twice before
doing something nice.  A young man  said to me this afternoon, “wait a
minute…I’ll get that for you,” referring to opening the door for me.  Now,
should I have said, “I may be blind and a woman,  but I am more than capable
of opening the door for myself thank you,” would that have helped to create
a more kinder and caring world?
Or should I have said what I in act did: “Thank you,”

You know gender is not biological any more…it is a construction of society!
“I’m paying how much to learn this,?”

Rhonda

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