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[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I always found the concept of a man opening a car door for a woman exceptionally insulting to women. I'll open doors for people when I'm walking with them, man or woman, but running ahead of a woman to open the car door for them is cringeworthy * 10. I get second-hand embarrassment shivers just thinking about doing it on a first date.

I like strong, independent, and capable women who are perfectly able to open car doors for themselves. Women who can hold their own in a conversation, are comfortable splitting a check, who are smart and educated, and who don't need to me protect them like they are delicate flowers. I have never been with or talked with a woman in my social group (that I know of) who expected a man to open a car door for them.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

My wife is educated, and can hold her own in a conversation. She's witty and capable. I open her car door (not every time) because I like doing something nice for her. She appreciates the gesture, but doesn't expect it. I think we should let the people in the relationship decide what works for them.

My old boss said he knew a married couple who sat down every year on their anniversary and discussed whether they wanted to remain married. I got the impression they had been together for quite some time and really cared for each other. That is not for me, but if that works for them, great!

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hey, you do you. I have no problem with it if it comes naturally. But any sort of expectation here just gives me the cringe-shivers. If the woman expects someone to open the door for her, yikes! If the man expects that he's the one to open the car door for the woman, yikes! And the basis of this thread seemed to be more around a woman expecting to have the car door opened for her which is why I wrote what I wrote.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah I think that's important to emphasize. I think doing it to be corny/cheesy/romantic or whatever within your relationship is one thing. The expectation is another thing.

I honestly had no idea what dating was growing up. All I saw was men opening doors and putting jackets over puddles. I was always like: "why wouldn't you just walk around the puddle instead of ruining a jacket?" Also, when you grow up and find that a lot of those guys that do that chivalrous stuff are like wife-beaters and you're like ... wtf.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I 100% agree about the chivalry and dating. And as soon as you say the woman is as strong as me (from a competence, intellect, and emotional standpoint) and is an equal partner in a relationship, a lot of the chivalry stuff doesn't make sense.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

i enter my car like the Dukes of Hazzard

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I only buy convertibles anymore, makes it so easy.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Look at what they do to try and imitate my power

gestures to jeep with doors removed

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Do men still open car doors?

Removes entire door from vehicle

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

MFW I see an Ariel Atom

🥜💦😳

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

🎶Just-a good ole boys🎶

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago

car doors don't open by themselves

My minivan's side doors do. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes.

Sometimes they even shut by themselves.

Signed, a Honda Odyssey owner.

I love having a minivan but there is just soooooooooo much shit that can break expensively. Doors especially.

My kids are bigger now. Maybe get a real passenger van...or an older minivan where the doors are manual and let out a satisfying KERCHUNK when they are opened/shut.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You can probably make that happen with yours. When our Toyota Sienna lost power in the doors we decided it was too old to invest that much money into them. It was much cheaper to cut away the cable and disconnect power so they operated just like any manual sliding door

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On my car, the actuator that unlatches the door is electronic and apparently can get "stuck", keeping the door from opening more than a crack.

Fortunately this most recent time I figured out how to fix it, by jamming a screwdriver in there and prying it open. But even then I had to disconnect the battery for a few minutes after to reset the door system. Why things gotta be so complicated? Why can't the latch mechanism be cable driven like, ya know, every other car.

Also there's nothing to grab hold of to shut or open the door from the inside. So I think a manual door conversion isn't possible. But worth looking into for the future.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That’s unfortunate. Our minivan was older so the latch was mechanical, and the handle identical to the previous mechanically opening door

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You still need to press a button.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

You misunderstand; my minivan is a busted POS.

[-] TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The doors open by themselves, sometimes even when parked!

[-] tiguwang@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

My car just materializes around me when I need it.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Funny, mine is the other way. I get in mine the way the ghost programs do in the 2nd Matrix movie.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I just pluck it from my car pocket and *poof*, car.

[-] don@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

No we just stand around our vehicles and wait for quantum probability to randomly replace the closed door car with one that has open doors. tf you think we do you dunce

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[-] henry1917@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] azalty@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago
[-] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Because he's just a shitty copy of Pakalu Papito

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but we need more Papitos in the world

[-] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

No, we do not. Instead we phase through the door and pop out on the other side to get in and out.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Stay a while, and listen. Let me tell you the story of the brothers Duke . . .

[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a young person i for sure did this for my girlfriends. They would then reach over and unlock it for me. That was a perfect time to let that fart out you were holding.

These days with a remote it's just stupid to waste the time. Women's rights and all that. Now i just fart in the car without worrying.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I have a Miata so often times I don't open the doors.

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Rubs shoes over dash getting them in

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my uncle on my father’s side is a man, and i think he just turns into goo and goes through the cracks of the door

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, the Alex Mack technique.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Show me on the doll where your uncle touched you

[-] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I like to use the sunroof

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ErM yOu UsE tHe ApP ☝️🤓 /s

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sadly the Duke boys window entry never really caught on as well as obesity.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

jump through the window like the american dad intro, now that'll put some hair on your chest

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Generally true, but I've had to enter my car via the trunk more than once due to the doors freezing shut.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That wouldn't happen if you left the doors open

🧠 🤯

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When it gets really cold my doors have issues. So a few months back I was leaving for work on a Tuesday morning at 2:30am. (Delivery trucks would arrive at 3:30am Tuesdays that's why I remember). I get in the old 94 Cherokee and back down the drive. As I head down my street I see 2 cop cars stopped at the corner right before the turn I need to take out of the neighborhood. As I approach I brake and start to swing to the right just a tad to make sure they have room in case they got out of the car, and good thing I did because as I passed them MY door swung open and would have knocked the side view mirror off the cop car had I not. The cop just saw me panickingly lean and reach out with my left hand to snatch the door to pull it shut, my seat belt pops open at that moment and I almost fall out of the car but manage to close the door, fight with the seatbelt and take the turn only to continue driving wondering how far I would get before those cops pulled me over assuming I was drunk and when they find out I'm not give me a ticket for I have no idea what. The bars close here at 3am, so drunk drivers are plenty around that time.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago

you probably made that cop's night

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A real life reason to sing the Lemmiwinks song!

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't... I just Jedi mind trick myself into the vehicle

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I always assumed that was what the sonroof was for

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