BeechLikeTheMe

Jun 18
We got a Storge type of thang.

The other day I was waiting in a salon with Rachel while she got her nails done. I had been sitting on a two seater sofa at the front for a long time with lots of female customers coming and going, some sitting next to me, some standing if there was no more space. About an hour and a half in, the woman at reception and from what I gather, owner, was quite offended by me for not giving a woman my seat while she had been standing there for a couple of minutes with her daughter sitting next to me. She said that giving a lady a seat was “what a man does” and that it was called “CHIVALRY” because I’d so obviously never heard of the concept before, seeing as I did nothing. It really pissed me off that this was apparently expected of me and I can’t properly express why.
It seems like an outdated, sexist and somewhat self appraising concept.
I am generally polite, I hold open doors for people, no matter who they are, and obviously I understand the reasoning behind giving an elderly or pregnant person your seat and gestures of that nature. What I don’t see the reasoning behind is that I should give a seat away instantly to someone on the only prompt that this person is a woman.

Am I in the wrong?

Jun 17
¿?Chivalry?¿
Jun 17

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Jun 17

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"Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won’t know how to handle all the things I’ve done wrong."

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Jun 17
Jun 17

milkywaywhite:

Sleeping Beauties

When animals are asleep, they are at their most vulnerable; even the most dangerous predator can look beautiful & gentle while sleeping. When in the land of dreams, all creatures are equals in this world. We are all Sleeping Beauties, just like the creatures in these beautiful sleeping animal pictures.

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twinkledaddy: work has been RUFF lately
Jun 17

twinkledaddy:

work has been RUFF lately

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Jun 16

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Jun 16

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Jun 15

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victoriousvocabulary: TORPID [1] [adjective] 1. inactive or sluggish. 2. slow; dull; apathetic; lethargic. 3. dormant, as a hibernating or estivating animal. Etymology: Latin torpidus - numb, equivalent to torp(ēre) - to be stiff or numb. TORPID [2] 1. an eight-oared, clinker-built boat used for races at Oxford University during the Lenten term. Etymology: special use of torpid [1]. [KaSSandrA]
Jun 15

victoriousvocabulary:

TORPID [1]

[adjective]

1. inactive or sluggish.

2. slow; dull; apathetic; lethargic.

3. dormant, as a hibernating or estivating animal.

Etymology: Latin torpidus - numb, equivalent to torp(ēre) - to be stiff or numb.

TORPID [2]

1. an eight-oared, clinker-built boat used for races at Oxford University during the Lenten term.

Etymology: special use of torpid [1].

[KaSSandrA]