answer:The first that comes to mind: When I was still in my teens, we were taught that well brought up men always opened doors for all females and that not to do so was a major faux pas. I also remember being told by my mother that a gentleman always walks on the street side of the sidewalk when walking with a girl. This was so that any dirt or mud thrown up by cars wouldn’t soil her clothes. But all this quickly changed in my early twenties during the indomitable en avant of the Women’s Movement. Ha. In the years since being a tender young lad only wishing to do right by girls and listening to his mother, I’ve heard the opposite about walking down the street with a woman. In urban areas, a man should arrange for the woman to walk on the streetside so to be able to protect her if a mugger jumps out of a recessed doorway or alley.