From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jss Newsgroups: net.social Title: Re: Harassment? Article-I.D.: brunix.1272 Posted: Thu Jan 20 15:25:38 1983 Received: Fri Jan 21 06:36:06 1983 References: brunix.1269,hou5e.201 i agree 97% with graeme's letter on the subject. we usually can tell that a man is opening the door to patronize us when he pushes us out of the way to get at it (slight exaggeration; it's actually a kind of dance step). remember that everyone is not as sensible as thee and me. there *are* men who would prefer breaking a woman's arm to letting her hold a door for them, however laden they might be, and women who will stand there watching a laden man struggle for a door, and we have to live in the same world with them.