Depends on what kind of woman they are. The girly ones, yes I do treat them with more respect, in the aspect of opening doors, giving a helping hand when she needs it, etc. but for girls that are either tomboys, or girls that feel they are just one of the boys, then I don't do anything special for them. Basically just what makes the setting tick.
"You know what? I respect women! I love women! I respect them so much that I completely stay away from them!" - 40 Year Old Virgin
define respect please I'll wait... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_DZ3_obMXwU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I'll respect anyone on meeting them because all 7 billion people on the planet are guaranteed to know pain, tragedy and death and not guaranteed to know love, achievement or happiness, so I cut them some slack and not try to make their problems worse, be they a caustic ass or flighty starved ego, because you never know why they are the way they are. For someone to be my friend they need to be simpatico, entertaining with humor, of the same interests (sports and music, science), non-psycho and trustworthy to the point that if I gave them a million dollars to hold, I'd get a million dollars back. Man, woman or child, black white or brown, from any nation. But probably a middle aged white dude I've known for over 30 years.
Don't worry, most of those threads and posts are made by guys who spend all their time playing video games and beating off to internet p*rn. Half of them are probably too scared to even talk to a real live woman and wouldn't know what to say or how to act if they actually encountered one with a brain. As far as the topic goes, I think it depends on what you mean by respect. I mean, I don't go around telling women to get back in the kitchen (fresh joke, huh?) or any of that other grandiose nonsense, but as far as REAL respect and admiration....yeah, that has to be earned. Just as I should have to earn it from a woman.
Fair enough. Although respect here is nice, I don't go out of my way to shine a light on me for people who I don't even know. I get plenty of attention at work. It's just that I'd personally be embarrassed to post some of the things that people do here because I know that women are in this forum, but I'm old school and maybe my rules don't apply anymore. That's why I was curious.
In the old school days, women were more traditional. They were feminine, respectful, and most of them waited until marriage to have sex. How can you not respect that? Compared to... now days, majority of women spend all of their time on facebook, text messaging, sleeping around casually, watching MTV, E!, celebrity gossip, kardashians, they marry/date for money, get plastic surgery, etc... So there is your difference. Like you say you are old school so you respect women because they earned it, new school most younger guys don't respect women because they don't deserve it.
Yes, they deserve respect. Why do they have to earn something that's so EASY for you to give (that's what SHE said)? If they act like b*tches, on the other hand, that respect should never decrease... but given to someone else. I resent that, sir. I do NOT play video games.
To me, it's all about what you DO with that respect. Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, if you are going to treat me with the same respect I give you, appreciate the things that I bring to the table (whether as a friend, a colleague, a boyfriend, etc), and genuinely act like a respectable person, then I will not only give you respect, but I will probably go the extra mile for you if it ever came down to it. However, if you blatantly exploit the fact that I'm a good-natured person, and use that to act spoiled, trifling, and just flat-out rude, then absolutely not. You don't deserve anything from me, or anybody else for that matter.
I don't get this earning respect to be a friend business. I'm choosy about friends, but it's not about respect.
*I get what you're saying, ima, being thats its true . Guy to guy talk* Lets pretend this post came from a WOMAN - Would you want to go out of your way to open doors for a woman saying that? To me thats not EVERYONE but its seemingly more exemplifying how women are now - looking to shame guys on what they do while they themselves are doing more non-traditional "w****-ish" things THEMSELVES. "Guys, STOP looking at whores while I make myself look more like a w****" BUT STILL, I try to give everyone a big apologetic benefit of the doubt and will believe they ARE capable of good. Which means = Neutral respect until UN-earned.
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I enjoy opening doors for people, so that has nothing to do with respect...for me anyway. It was just the way I was brought up. As far as respect goes, you have my respect...until you screw up and then "I kill you" (in the voice of Achmed the Dead Terrorist)
ALL people deserve respect.. right ..'Brother' ?? if only there was some kind of association that was trying to advance respect for colored people
Everyone deserves courtesy but respect is earned regardless of gender. As someone else said most women are so wrapped up in their own insecurities, hypocrisies, or golddigging it's difficult to find any that deserve respect.
Entirely depends on the woman, AB, but I admit that I was raised to open doors for them, pull out a chair when they're going to sit down, that sort of thing. During the '60's and '70's, I went on strike, but got over it. So I still do a lot of that, and get a bemused look from the female sometimes. One thing I always do is treat elderly women with what is probably an inordinate amount of respect. I was blessed with some outstanding elderly ladies as relatives growing up, and it stuck with me.
