The Importance Of Being A Gentleman

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Let’s face it, not many of us get any formal training when it comes to being a gentleman. We attract girls by showing off, proving our manliness by doing something to hurt ourselves then bask in feminine sympathy. We’re too busy playing sports to learn how to do laundry. And why should we learn how to do laundry? When we’re in the big leagues, someone else will do it anyway.
Women are very capable creatures. They can open their own doors and defend themselves if they know where to strike a guy…it only takes one good hit. They know what they want and when they want it and if a guy doesn’t know these things automatically after a few years it’s a crisis. Women are mysterious. They have their ways of communicating their displeasure in such a way that no man on the planet can understand. Still, being a gentleman in the face of the impossible is still important.
Historically, being a gentleman had a very strict set of rules that were drilled into every upper class boy’s life from an early age. The lower class boys were free from such restrictions. But being a gentleman has great benefits; it surprises the 21st century female and makes her look twice. This is better than having a broken arm from showing off, so it’s something to consider.
Since being a gentleman implies dressing in a suit, shoes polished, soft hands and being boring, let’s set the record straight. A guy should be a gentleman in order to like himself better, to be able to balance the roughness with a smoother side. It doesn’t have to be one way or the other. Knowing how to incorporate being a gentleman is a change of lifestyle but it isn’t the end of the world and surprisingly, most women won’t demand any guy to be a gentleman 24/7; only with her. That can get really c...

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...you might have other priorities, make it a habit to clean up after yourself. If your mother bothered to teach it to you, keep it up because it’s a great thing to have a good looking place if your girlfriend decides to drop over unannounced or you want to invite a girl in after a date. Gentlemen are self-sufficient, and don’t require anyone to pick up after them.
Being a gentleman is a lifestyle and you don’t have to be stuffy and boring. It will get you further in life and it will draw people of quality to you. Everyone has a wild side, including women, but that can be channeled into activities that don’t bring about the destruction of life and limb. Your social class doesn’t matter as much as your social behavior does. If you didn’t learn these things at home then it’s up to you to learn them in the world. It really doesn’t take much to be a gentleman these days.

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