The whole opening doors or not for women, thing. I don’t get it. Its such a contentious issue, STILL. I honestly think that people should just get over it.

Now, by this, I don’t mean that women should get over it… I mean, all those MEN that claim that women get offended and bawl them out, for opening doors for them, should get over it.
Men that refuse to open a door for me when I have my hands full, cos ‘Aren’t you a feminist or something?’ (Yeah, dead set, that did actually happen) should get over it.

This morning before work, I was at the news agency buying a bus ticket. There was a man coming in, as I went out. He tried to pull the door open, but it swings the other way, so I pulled it open my way, and held it open for him to walk past.
What ensued was a very awkward situation where he wouldn’t let go of the door until he had held it open for me… which crowded up the door frame, and meant I had to duck under his arm to get out of the shop.

Now, I didn’t get annoyed with him. He was trying to be polite… I did however find it a very amusing situation, and a case where it would have been simpler if he’d ignored the gender role, and just walked past me.