Reply To: Ladies First – Is it respectful or not?

Joseph: “the problem is that the man is always supposed to be in front since he is not allowed to walk behind his wife, so he ends up being the one to hold the door open for her.

Not if the door is pulled out to open. If he goes in first then she will be holding the door open for him.”

I don’t get what you mean. If he is in front of her, she can’t open the door for him. In any case, I always feel like it would be untznius for me to stand there holding open the door for a man, and I always feel like they are not comfortable with the idea either.