From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!iwsl2!jgpo
Newsgroups: net.social
Title: Re: Harassment?
Article-I.D.: iwsl2.129
Posted: Fri Jan 21 14:16:58 1983
Received: Sat Jan 22 05:09:06 1983
Reply-To: jgpo@iwsl2.UUCP (John Opalko)


I, personally, have held many a door for members of both sexes, always
out of common courtesy and politeness, with no conscious motive of
patronization on my part.

I have also had many a door held for me, also by members of both sexes,
without any hint of damage to my fragile masculine ego.

In short, as far as I am concerned, the entire door question is a non-
issue.  This is not to say that there are no patronizing treat-women-
like-helpless-bits-of-fluff types running around.  There are a few but,
fortunately, they are a minority.

As several contributors to this discussion have pointed out, it is
usually easy to discern the true motives of the door-holder.

Please, people.  The question of sexual harassment is an important
one.  It does exist and must be eliminated, for the benefit of men
as well as women.  This is too important an issue to be trivialized.


		John Opalko
		BTL - Naperville