etiquette: The Disconnected Society
- 12/22/14 09:33 PM
As we gather together this holiday season, I would like to propose participation in the following behavioral experiment: When there are ten or more people in a room, count how many of them at any given time are disconnected from the people around them and are otherwise engaged in the virtual realm via their mobile devices. The sad truth is that it has become socially acceptable to be socially unacceptable. What was once perceived as rudeness is now the norm. The living, breathing forms in the confined presence of the moment have been reduced to the status of a text or … (113 comments)
etiquette: It's a fine line between chivalry and sexism ...where do manners end and condescension begin in the world of the double-door?
- 10/19/08 01:06 AM
My friend Melody Botting and I were having a discussion about women and self-sufficiency and it got me to thinking about where things stand in the year 2008 in regards to etiquette and chivalry. You see, I'm old-fashioned, and I was raised in a different time. I was taught by my mother that you held a door open for a lady, that you carried her packages for her, and that at the dinner table, ladies first ... you didn't take a bite of food until all ladies present took one first. Now, I'm not saying that a woman CANNOT do those … (50 comments)
As we gather together this holiday season, I would like to propose participation in the following behavioral experiment:
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