Ladies rush to depreciate it, gentlemen run to appreciate it. I appreciate this.

What it is that he has that makes the ladies do what they just did?

Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.

She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.