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One of the good things for men in women’s liberation is that men no longer have to pay women the old-fashioned courtesies.
One of the good things for men in women’s liberation is that men no longer have to pay women the old-fashioned courtesies.
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2014-01-07
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One of the good things for men in women’s liberation is that men no longer have to pay women the old-fashioned courtesies.
In an article on the new manners, Ms. Holmes says that a perfectly able woman no longer has to act helplessly in public as if she were a model. For example, she doesn’t need help getting in and out of cars. "Women get in and out of cars twenty times a day with babies and dogs. Surely they can get out by themselves at night just as easily."
She also says there is no reason why a man should walk on the outside of a woman on the sidewalk. "Historically, the man walked on the inside so he caught the garbage thrown out of a window. Today a man is supposed to walk on the outside. A man should walk where he wants to. So should a woman.. If, out of love and respect, he actually wants to take the blows, he should walk on the inside—because that’s where attackers are all hiding these days."
As far as manners are connected, I supposed I have always been a supporter of women’s liberation. Over the years, out of a sense of respect, I imagine, I have refused to trouble women with outdated courtesies.
It is usually easier to follow rules of social behaviour than to depend on one’s own taste. But rules may be safely broken, of course, by those of us with the gift of natural grace. For example, when a man and woman are led to their table in a restaurant and the waiter pulls out a chair, the woman is expected to sit in the chair. That is according to Ms. Ann Clark. I have always done it the other way, according to my wife.
It came up only the other night. I followed the hostess to the table, and when she pulled the chair out I sat on it, quite naturally, since it happened to be the chair I wanted to sit in.
"Well," my wife said, when the hostess had gone, "you did it again."
"Did what? "I asked, utterly confused.
"Took the chair."
Actually, since I’d walked through the restaurant ahead of my wife, it would have been awkward, I should think, not to have taken the chair. I had got there first, after all.
Also, it has always been my custom to get in a car first, and let the woman get in by herself. This is a courtesy I insist on as the stronger sex, out of love and respect. In times like these, there might be attackers hidden about. It would be unsuitable to put a woman in a car and then shut the door on her, leaving her at the mercy of some bad fellow who might be hiding in the back seat.
The author is______ about the whole question of manners and women’s liberation.
选项
A、joking
B、satirical
C、serious
D、critical
答案
A
解析
作者在文章中多处流露出轻微的调侃语气。如第4段的第2句,作者说,“多年以来,出于对女士的尊敬.我不会用一些过时的礼仪来麻烦她们。”又如第5段的第2句,作者说某些规矩有时也会被像自己这样有“自然风度”的人“安全地”违反,但事实上这种违反一点都不“安全”,作者随后举出的例子就证明了这一点。在最后一段,作者说自己从来都先于女性上车,而对于这样一种有悖传统礼仪的做法,作者给出的理由却是“出于爱与尊敬”,还有车的后座上可能会有歹徒突然袭击。作者其实是用一种轻松调侃的语气表达自己的观点,即完全没有必要盲目遵循传统社会礼仪,故本题选A。
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