Comments on: Myth of the Man-Hating Feminist

By: ae

ae — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 04:18:30 +0000

Having never watched Cavuto’s show, I cannot comment on his “journalistic” “ethics” (oh, we’re going to need lots of quotation marks to discuss anything on FAUX Noise), but it strikes me as pure ballyhoo. I mean, is his ostensibly a news program? And if so, what the heck is he doing editorializing about doors and women and his own magnanimous gentlemanliness? Keerist, does anything resembling news make it on that channel?

My guess is that since Shrill O’Lielly was off hunting falafels somewhere, Cavuto took it upon himself to hold the pro-woman torch up high.

Okay, wait. That was all supposed to be in quotation marks. :-)

By: jam

jam — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:33:04 +0000

howz that sprained eyeball, Ms. Lauren?

By: Trish Wilson

Trish Wilson — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 03:06:42 +0000

I’ve never run across this problem, nor have any of my friends. I always open the door for people behind me, whether they are male or female, out of politeness. Plenty of people have done the same for me. What I see far more often are jerks who go through the door and keep on walking, leaving the door to nearly slam on my face. That is downright rude.

By: Rabbit

Rabbit — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:44:16 +0000

My dad’s the kind of guy who likes to open doors for women, I’m guessing just because he’s always done it and because he feels its a polite thing to do. He said this has actually happened to him a few times, though not quite as rudely, where women give him a ‘what do you think you’re doing?!’ look when he goes to open the door. But his comment on it was pretty much ‘oh well…let them be mad’ because he’s not doing it from a condecending perspective and most women are fine with it or flattered thus so what if one woman a year makes a big deal out of him trying to be nice. And…I think he’s probably right that its not worth it to worry about one person overreacting once in a while. I mean…I’ve had people get mad at me for all sorts of silly reasons when I was just trying to be nice.

By: etherealfire

etherealfire — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:17:35 +0000

Honestly, this guy’s story was a revelation to me… Maybe it’s just the places I’ve lived but I’ve never seen this to be an issue. I open as many doors for other people (whether male or female) as are opened for me. I really haven’t given it much thought. If I get to a door first and other people are on their way in, I open the door for them. I frequently receive the same treatment from men and women – it’s not a chivalry issue, it’s a matter of common courtesy, imho. Maybe I’m living in a different world than this guy, but I truly haven’t noticed the door being that big of an issue one way or another. I really didn’t think something like that would be a big issue for anyone these days….

By: mythago

mythago — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:57:24 +0000

Taken the door BACK, Pearl? Did you rip it off its hinges or something?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:34:48 +0000

I think it’s a bit rich for a person to try to pen an incisive allegory on personal social experiences when a vast portion of society would immediately kick him in the balls if they ever saw him in the street.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:25:51 +0000

I totally find the story credible. I’ve moderated from full-on frontal absurd levels of finding courtesy an offensive insult calling me the weaker sex, but I’ve been there. I’ve given drop dead looks and refused to go thru doors and taken the door back from the man. I’d rather scrape the floor and break my back carrying a table myself than have a man help me.

By: Moebius Stripper

Moebius Stripper — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:03:47 +0000

I’m willing to believe that this guy’s story is true (it takes all kinds, and all); I’m a lot less willing to draw a single conclusion from it, while Cavuto seems to have no trouble at all drawing several. Heck – true story – a few months ago I ran into a Swedish immigrant who engaged me in conversation for an hour about how Canada sucks and the US rocks, and how the metric system is (I am not making this up) a liberal hippie communist plot to destroy America. I guess I could write an article about how the culture in Sweden produces paranoid, anti-Canadian SOB’s and sends them to Vancouver Island, but I don’t see the point.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:00:11 +0000

I consider myself a feminist, but I’ve never been offended by someone just being nice. I do, however, become very angry when people assume things about independent girls – When I got accepted to Smith College, I had a lot of guys ask me if I liked girls. I ended up not attending and going to a different school. Maybe a guy opening a door is a much more mild way of assuming something, but it’s pretty harmless in my opinion.