Reddit reviews 50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why

You do know that a substantial portion of the population (both men and women) are perfectly happy to follow archaic gender roles right? If that is the majority of the time you hear the word then I feel bad for you.

Also, for my 17th birthday my grandfather got me a book 50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know (I may have been a little old, but it sure had a lot of good advice) and what it boiled down to was a combination of good manners and proper upkeep of articles of clothing such as suits and shoes. In fact, the only specific thing about women I remember from the book was proper respect for family, especially your mother. Young men naturally tend to pull away from their mothers, so a reminder such as that is prudent.