"Does anyone want those days back? I don't. I find most men are still polite to me, and I am polite to them. They hold doors, I hold doors; they offer seats to people who need them more, so do I. It is the courtesy of equality. If you occasionally meet a woman who is waspish about common courtesy, then she is an ignorant woman, and she is not an informed feminist."

I'd be the last to ask for a return to any of the conditions you describe, Bee.

However, I do long for the days when women were just not heard using foul language (I never swear in front of a woman-I was brought up not to), and when opening a door for a woman did not elicit the response "What do you think I am, f***ing helpless".

I no longer attempt to show this kind of courtesy, having received not one but dozens of similar verbal slaps in the face.

Sooner or later one stops bashing ones head against the wall.

I hate to admit it but I do not have the same degree of respect for today's foul mouthed young women, as I have for their grandmothers.

I'm sorry but I must call it as I see it.

Don T.