What's happened to the younger generation?

jscrayto

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Took the wife, kids and the in-laws out to eat Saturday night to a hibachi restaurant. It was prom night for some of the local high schools and one couple sat with us. While walking out, we watched the poor clueless fellow walk around his shined up Z-71 and get in first. I just turned 32 and I still open the door for my wife. Are the days of the gentleman finally gone? It was funny but said as all of us looked at each other and said did you see that? He didn't get her door.
 
Yep days of being a gentleman are long gone I'm 32 also and half the time my 26 year old gf won't let me get the door but I always try lol but now a days people don't expect it bc they weren't raised that way... Sad to say but true!
 
Im 30 and still open the door for my fiance every time. Although, Id say 75-80% of my friends dont get the doors for their girls either. Half the women out there dont deserve a man with the "gentleman" gene so Im sure thats part of it. Ive always been this way. Its funny as 30 yr olds, we are still young and are already looking down on the generations under us. We will have to correct that with our kids cause Ill be damned if my kids are pussified, participation trophy receiving, safe-space kids.
 
Although I understand your point, I think there are a lot stronger indicators of things wrong with the younger generations than failure to open a car door. The car door thing is a clueless age indicator, not a generational shortcoming. Things are more informal now, across all generations.
 
I used to open the car door for my wife all the time. I think I cut way back on doing it when our boy was born. I was usually the one to carry him out and put him in the car, or help him get buckled in. He can get in and buckle himself in now though, so I need to start opening her door regularly again.
 
Women's lib had a harsh effect on being a "gentlemen" for many years, but my wife loves the fact that I'm a traditionalist. She's well aware I know she's capable of opening her own door, making her own money, and she doesn't NEED a man to survive. But she also appreciates what having a gentleman IS.

My kids have never seen an example of anything less, and I EXPECT the same behavior from them. I've told my girls you don't NEED a man for a damn thing, but if you WANT one, he better treat you like a princess.
 
Let's not exclude the proliferation of "womens-lib" crap (anything a man can do, we can do better) from the equation...
I consider myself a gentleman 99.9% of the time (0.01% is when I shouldn't).
Went out with mid-40s lady a few times that got absolutely venomous over opening/holding doors!
At first it was a game to run around the vehicle/beat her to the door... which turned into her game to jump out/in or block me!

Fawk that! :flipoff2:
 
I had a car that had a busted driver door lock cyl. So, I had to unlock/open the passenger side door, and use the electric door locks to unlock my door. Made it real convenient to look like a gentleman when on a date. But awkward when going somewhere with one of the guys.

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