In my RCG class, we read many chapters in my Unit 2 section, and I agree with most things the various authors had to say. However, when I read the Oppression section, I had a big problem with one of the author’s ideas. The author was clearly a feminist, and although I am a firm believer for equal woman rights, I often have problems when feminists become extreme. The author claims that men who open doors for woman are sexist. “These gestures imitate the behavior of servants toward masters and thus mock woman..” She claims that when men open the door for woman it is to assert dominance and to mock woman. This is the type of feminism that I have a problem with. She takes a polite act, as opening the door for another person, and twists it into men ridiculing woman. I grantee that when the average man opens a door he is not thinking that a woman is incapable or how this action is done to remind the woman that she is a mere “servant.” If anything, this action shows respect and is done to try to please the other person. If a man is kind enough to open the door for anyone who walks through then that is a good man, not a cruel person like this author is trying to portray him as. I will forever appreciate a man, woman, or any person who opens the door before me..