i see women, women i'm friends with, women i respect and admire and who are great people, beautiful and amazing, i see these women not being treated the way they should be.

and so, because they're not, when i do something that just seems normal and right, i'm treated as if i'm weird. or, sometimes, like i'm trying to put the moves on them.

that's not the case.

i was brought up to wait in the car until the person either drove away safely or made it inside with no problem.

i was brought up to open doors.

i was brought up with the idea that all women have a spark of beauty in them and to make them feel like any less than that is unexcusable.

but it seems, more and more, that when i unlock the door for a friend, i'm told i'm being weird.

women don't expect someone to wait as they walk into their buildings. when i do, they keep looking back at me.

i'm not doing anything special. nothing less than what should be normal, at least.

i don't know how many guys ive got reading this, or how many people out there are dating women, but, if only for me, do these little things for her.

it doesn't take much and it stops me from being special.