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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally get you, OP.  There is a man in our neighborhood who insists on doing this to all women as well.  In fact, he is the head of our HOA, so each time you have to deal with the HOA, this is how he addresses you.  I do not care for it either and I too feel it is distancing and a throw-back.  I am 42, so I ma not a snowflake, and I would say he is about. . .60?  I also feel it diminishes me and makes me feel as if he does not view my voice as equally important as a) a man's or b) an older person's.  I feel he treats me like just a little girl in the neighborhood.

Adding to it:  he also signs all his emails with, "Blessings, Larlo."  I ALSO think this makes him stick out.  I am religious too (Roman Catholic) but I do not think it is appropriate to sign non-religious emails with "Blessings."  Too personal.  It would be equally weird if he signed an email, "Love, Larlo," or "Hugs, Larlo."  LOL!

Won't someone tell these men to catch up with modern professional forms of communication?[/quote]

So your position is that he should "catch up with modern" times because you feel uncomfortable? This is tantamount to saying that people of other cultures must assimilate because you are uncomfortable with them. In our "modern" times, have we decided that cultural assimilation diminishes those how we have in the past demanded to assimilate? Doesn't modern liberalism demand that we include everyone to the point of accepting their idiosyncrasies and that not doing this makes one a throwback to lest enlightened times? While it is paradoxical that being "modern" means accepting others pre-modern behaviors it is equally incongruous to demand that others change their behaviors to fit our perception of cultural norms because this itself was pre-modern behavior.

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