Sport seats
02-06-2019, 05:09 AM
#12
Club AutoUnion
02-06-2019, 05:36 AM
#13
AudiWorld Super User
02-06-2019, 06:55 AM
#14
Yeesh! This was about the fact that my wife has trouble pivoting into the sports seat without a grab loop. Also she is short and the headrest doesn’t adjust. It will be a challenge in 2 years when lease is up.
02-06-2019, 11:17 AM
#15
AudiWorld Senior Member
02-06-2019, 04:27 PM
#16
AudiWorld Member
Ya know what? Just be courteous to everyone. Help anyone into the car, or hold the door for anyone behind you, etc. That way, it's all good. Just treat everyone how you'd want to be treated. No one ever objected to having a door held for them per se; they objected to how that act was interpreted and projected as a signifier of power relationships based on gender. Strip that away, and make it an act of courtesy, and you're golden. Of course, yes, some people of whatever persuasions will always be wiling to make a federal case out of anything but really, I've found over the years that extending courtesy to all and sundry, regardless of who they are, pretty much works all the time.
02-06-2019, 07:18 PM
#17
AudiWorld Senior Member
Where I work everyone opens the door for everyone.
02-07-2019, 02:53 AM
#18
Club AutoUnion
Ya know what? Just be courteous to everyone. Help anyone into the car, or hold the door for anyone behind you, etc. That way, it's all good. Just treat everyone how you'd want to be treated. No one ever objected to having a door held for them per se; they objected to how that act was interpreted and projected as a signifier of power relationships based on gender. Strip that away, and make it an act of courtesy, and you're golden. Of course, yes, some people of whatever persuasions will always be wiling to make a federal case out of anything but really, I've found over the years that extending courtesy to all and sundry, regardless of who they are, pretty much works all the time.
I totally agree, but there may be some people who cannot accept the gesture of opening a car door as anything other than a “power play.” Many years ago, when I was singles, some of the women I dated, when I opened my car door for them, would comment, “I can open my own door.” Most often that was a first — and last —date for us. As TheWombat said, I was trying to be a gentleman, not a “domineering male.”
To each his own, but respect can be shown without it being a gender-based power play. Just my 2 cents and, as always, YMMV.
— John
02-07-2019, 04:41 AM
#19
AudiWorld Super User
Ya know what? Just be courteous to everyone. Help anyone into the car, or hold the door for anyone behind you, etc. That way, it's all good. Just treat everyone how you'd want to be treated. No one ever objected to having a door held for them per se; they objected to how that act was interpreted and projected as a signifier of power relationships based on gender. Strip that away, and make it an act of courtesy, and you're golden. Of course, yes, some people of whatever persuasions will always be wiling to make a federal case out of anything but really, I've found over the years that extending courtesy to all and sundry, regardless of who they are, pretty much works all the time.
02-07-2019, 05:54 AM
#20
AudiWorld Member
If people can't handle common courtesy we are evolving in the wrong direction.
Last edited by Richr; 02-07-2019 at 06:40 AM.