Being a gentleman/ How to Treat a Lady

[darksakul]

I agree OP. Issue is with this modern world people misinterpret this kinds of actions for being sexist.

It is sexism. The act of treating someone with extra dosages of decency based on gender is sexist. Nothing to misinterpret about it; if you treat someone differently for good or ill based on their gender you are doing so on their sex which is sexism. While i agree with the rest of your argument i feel if you are going to be a 21st sentry gentleman don't discriminate to whom you are kind.

For the record chivalric behavior is alive and well in relationships. In one where it can grow unhindered such behavior is not considered sexist because it is nothing more than being nice to someone you love.

OT: The gentlemanly nature of shielding the woman from an out of control motor vehicle stems from mans role as protector of humanity. The idea that you may die but the woman(needed for reproduction) still lived. Yes i know it was most prevalent in the 50s but it still stands had it been a chariot, a coach, or a horse. We are only now coming out of the survival shell we had when trying advance the species. The splash is just being a gentleman dying is social stigma for survival.

Hence in my first post I did suggest not to offer such things if the person you are with does not want it. Being a modern day gentlemen has less to do with "treating the fairer sex with kindness" (which to some is sexist) and more holding your self in a higher standard of conduct.
I hold open doors for people not because the person might be an attractive woman but because regardless of race, gender or age it is a kind deed they still goes appreciated today.
If you can't understand that then you are more stuck in the past than what you claim myself to be.