But I have a question for everyone…how do you greet a woman?
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Hi, Colleen!
Yours is again a good post, and it is quite pitiful that one would have to explain how to give a manly handshake, yet such is the depths to which an effeminate and sexually promiscuous culture has sunk. Now of course that doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with Godly femininity, but there is a world of difference between that which is a virtue and today’s liberal feminism. A feminist is hardly ever an example of femininity. Nevertheless, I don’t have an answer to your question, “How do you great a woman?” [BTW, change "great" to "greet" - I am gratified to see that I am not the only one who makes such spelling errors.
] But I would suggest performing the handshake in the same way:
1) Make eye contact.
2) Smile.
3) Use a firm grip.
thanks, Paul…need to use spell check, eh?
I have found that when I’m shaking hands with an older gentleman, he’ll do a “half-grip”…like he’s going to kiss the back of my hand but doesn’t…does that make sense?
Paul, you are so right when you say that a feminist is not a model of femininity. In fact, G.K. Chesterton said there is nothing more unfeminine than feminism.
Colleen,
The “About.com” web site provides guidance on “Business Etiquette: 10 Tips on How to Shake Hands With Confidence” here:
http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/businessetiquette/tp/10-Tips-on-How-to-Shake-Hands.htm
The “Becoming a Lady” web site offers advice on “Shaking Hands as a Lady” here:
http://becoming-a-lady.com/events/shaking-hands-as-a-lady
Apparently there was a time when men and women did not shake hands. Rather, men would tip their hats and bow their heads to greet a lady, and perhaps kiss the lady’s hand. But those days of chivalry have long since passed with the ascendency of what currently passes for “equal rights” (which by the way is neither equal nor right).
Paul, it’s painfully clear why men don’t greet women with a kiss on the hands these days; we will be accused of putting the moves on a female. In fact, we males can be sued for sexual harassment just for not being homosexuals, and we don’t even have to act boorish, or even pretend to.
One thing that annoys me when shaking a man’s hand is the ‘fast squeezer.’ This is a man who starts squeezing before you get your hand fully into position, forcing you into the ‘limp fish’ position, where you can’t squeeze back. I think some guys may use this as a tactic to establish what they feel is a superior position.
Larry,
Those who use the tactic of “fast squeezer” that you cited above as a means to force one into a “limp fish” position in order to establish what they feel is a superior position betray their own inferiority complex. The best tactic in this case is to let them feel superior. After all, the first shall be last and the last first.