Wow, this whole debate of sexism topics, like door holding, makes me wonder if I was raised wrong...

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108. No women here has made an issue about doors.

By continually making a strawman argument out of opening doors, when NO ONE said she was offended by that shows makes clear exactly what is going on here. It's an effort to portray women's concerns as petty. I don't know why some here have such trouble reading and insist on repeatedly misrepresenting this subject, but the game here is obvious.

What women like me care about about is men who rape women and those who enable rape by saying women don't really mean no when we say no, or blame sexual assault on how women are dressed. I care about men who insist, against all evidence to the contrary, that women are less intelligent and capable than they, and seek to justify their continuing efforts to exclude women's concerns from political discussions. I care about men who beat women, kill them, rape, and justify it all by arguing that men have it so tough in the world. I care when women are demeaned in a variety of ways, including when men marking territory in public space through blatant sexism. I care about the fact that insecure men of limited intelligence feel a need to demean women to make themselves feel powerful, but of course in doing so they only highlight their own weakness.

I don't for a second think the most vocal sexists err by being too polite to women. They are anything but polite. They are instead actively engaged in an ongoing war on women. This door canard is all part of an ongoing effort to degitimate the importance of feminism and equal rights for women. Distractions like this are a cynical and manipulative.