Wine, women and restaurants

[Thomas]

Let me get myself in trouble here:

1. Chivalry is sexism, pure and simple. Not necessarily bad, just depends on perspective, but it is sexism.

2. Women who want respect for wine knowledge in a restaurant, and hate when the waiter goes directly to the man for the first taste, but also want men not to let them carry their own luggage, or do their job (which might be to carry cases of wine) seems to me as reverse chivalry. Again, not necessarily bad, depends on perspective.

I like it when we simply do nice things for one another, regardless of our gender. I have held doors open for both men and women, and I have let women do their job if it entails carrying something to my car, and that is what they want to do.

My perspective: equal treatment for equal treatment...

As for the waiter and wine service, I don't look at it in a gender frame of mind. Simply put: the waiter should serve the first taste to whomever ordered the wine.