I posted this on Facebook first.  

 

Yesterday, I posted about walking along the street. Let me explain please, as I was posting from my phone and typing is not always easy......in days gone by, when couples would walk along the street, the men walked on the street side (or outside) and the women walked on the non-street side (or inside). The purpose of this was to help protect the women from calamity. Run away horses, splashing mud puddles, errant automobiles, etc.

That practice seems to have gone by the wayside now. Many women do not feel that they need to be "protected". They get offended when men open doors for them, when to me, that is not just plain old nice, but also a sign of respect. It seems so many women are caught up in proving they are "just like a man" that the world is losing something even more important, a soft touch. And because that soft touch is disappearing, the world is becoming a hard place.