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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: opening doors
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 22:36:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 22:36:31 1984
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>When I go through a door first, I usually hold it open for whoever else is with
>me.  I have to admit that I get a real kick out of doing this with men because
>so many of them do not know how to react to a woman holding a door for them, and
>it's really fun watching them go through very elaborate contorsions to grab the
>door I am firmly holding away from me.

I really think that it's quite sufficient to determine who opens a door and
who walks through first based on who's walking ahead, or is in a hurry, or
is carrying something, etc.  (I always find it a little silly when the
person ahead of me on the stairs goes through the door and holds it open
for me so that I have to edge around the opened door to start up the next
flight.:-)  But all this has precious little to do with real sex roles,
pedestalization (forgive me, grammarians; it's not my pseudo-word), and the
like.  You may find it symbolic IF you choose to do so.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.