• The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

    Deborah Tannen: The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.
    Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.34, Harper Collins