The arogance of snooty women in Jeans

[bubba]

Absolutely Bear. There's too much being turned into gender issues that have nothing to do with gender at all and civilized behavior is one of them.

[macwilkin]

Good manners are not a gender issue.

Amen, Brother Bear. :mrgreen:

T.

[Colin]

AS for Bear's comment, not my choice either, I try to treat women with respect, even if they don't deserve it, and for sure this lass didn't.

I try to treat everyone with respect, unless they don't deserve it.

People get respect from me right from the start. Only those that ask for it get my bad side. I don't care if it's a man or woman. Good manners are not a gender issue.

Too many people nowadays demand respect, but fall short of earning it.

I don't care what age, sex, nationality, or sexual preference you are, I was brought up to believe you have to earn what you want and work to keep it.

[Graham]

Too many people nowadays demand respect, but fall short of earning it.

true Colin, but I am talking about what I choose to give, it's about my choices and my personal integrity more than about what the other person deserves or doesn't deserve.

You know, sometimes when people come over rude and you show a respectful attitude it can get the message home to them in a more powerful way.
The bible refers to it as "heaping burning coals on their heads" - quite an image!!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect and I loose my cool and say things I shouldn't - often!!

Only last night I had a woman insulting my integrity (not kilt related), i can't say what I felt like saying, but I bit my tongue rather than stooping to her level.

Wearing a kilt teaches us a lot about life doesn't it

[Casey]

I think that what we are talking of here is the classic "fight or flight" syndrome.

When others place us in a disadvanaged situation we react from somewhere deep inside. If we are prepared we can respond with kindness; this however, is not always the situation.

Casey

[RockyR]

I agree with Graham. You can catch bees with Honey but none with Vinegar.

Heaping coals of fire upon their head" will either melt them to repentance or be their judgment. While I want to lash out sometimes, The snooty woman did not really cause me to react in this case because I am comfortable with my masculinity and who and what I am in Christ. It's her problem. A vicious response won;t win over anybody to the "Kilted Side" or for anything else".

Choosing a kind response is a manly thing to do.

[Dreadbelly]

I have issues with that.

I can be easily provoked.

I have a tongue like an axe.

I try to be friendly. Still working on the issue.

[mcnice]

i requested once to one of those lassies, that she might have mens garment, but not our gentleness. she said something and heard telling myself, that she especially should be glad that men don t tell her what she looked like.
i was was not far away from the border of gentliness...