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In reply to the discussion: There seems to be a lot of confusion about benevolent sexism. [View all]Lurker Deluxe
(1,036 posts)Is he a big strong man? If so, than I would agree with him that it is his responsibility to protect those who are not as strong.
You can call me sexist if that is how you want to label me. I'll get over it. Fact of the matter is I treat women and children different than men.
We work alot on the weekends and this office is open 24/7, we have an "after hours sign in sheet" that has name/date/time/phone on it at the front desk. If I am in here on a Saturday working and I go to leave and I see the only other person in this building is a female I will go to her office and ask when she intends to finish for the day and go back out onto the shop floor and find something to do until she is ready to leave. I will not, under any circumstances, leave and allow her to be in this building and have to exit it in the dark, alone.
Won't happen. I'll sleep in my damn car.
That may make me whatever you want to call me. But it is more for me than her, the fact is that if she was attacked leaving the office after I left I would not be able to live with myself for putting her in that situation. No different than if I was out driving and I saw a young child walking alone down a dark road. Sorry ... I am going to do something there. I will not be the one who reads about a kid getting killed and has to live with the fact that I just kept driving.
I'll even own up to it ... I'm a pig.
And you can bitch about me opening doors and all that other stuff too.
I look at is this way, there are alot of predators in the world. Most of them do not target full grown adult men who are 6' - 235, if that means you consider me a sexist because I would not pass a woman on the side of the road changing a tire but would drive past Grizzly Adams ... so be it.