Miss Manners: Should He Stop Opening Doors for Ladies?
Each week, Miss Manners answers questions exclusively from the MSN audience on all of your etiquette dilemmas. (Have an issue you want help with? Send in a question today or talk about your own problems on our Miss Manners message board.) Read on for this week’s hot topics: Dear Miss Manners, I grew up as a young boy in the northeast New England states. I went to a conservative college in South Carolina where I learned a whole new set of social rules. At the school all males were required to hold open the doors for any females who were entering a building if they were in present proximity (as well as a number of other “southern gentleman” social graces). At first I thought them to be archaic and demeaning, but through the years since then I have grown to appreciate the way this honors ladies. During my college years, when I was back in Connecticut for the summer, I quickly learned that being a “southern gentleman” is not received well by ladies from the north. After getting cursed out
