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onpatrol98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:25 AM Original message |
A Last Bastion of Civility, the South, Sees Manners Decline |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm a graduate of Social, Inc. |
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Geoff R. Casavant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
2. I gotta side partly with the men on this one. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
3. The South's authoritarian "Yes Sir/Ma'am" norms are not Civility. |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Yep. I have long felt that the much-vaunted |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. If you want to see REAL civility, come to Occupy Los Angeles: grimy, |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Says you. |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
4. As someone who grew up in the south, I always found it to be a mixed bag. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
5. Yeah those lynchings sure were good manners and civil... |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
7. They were "asked", not told. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. Civility is more than polite words. |
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CurtEastPoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
10. From what I read locally it was always a custom for ANY man at the bar to give a seat to a WOMAN. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 01:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. I'm shocked that isn't the rule regardless of location. |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
11. I would have given up the seats |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
12. I was always told "ladies" don't set at a bar, at least no without a male companion. They |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
13. For what it's worth: For a year, I regularly took MARTA to work |
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xfundy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. Old-style Southern 'civility' didn't extend to blacks |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. What made the women think they had any right to claim seats that were already taken? |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Which is precisely why I give up my seat. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 01:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Agreed. I wouldn't be able to really enjoy myself at the bar with two women having to stand. |
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