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The discussion of manners is merely a means to avoid discussion of real sexism, as issodhos points out above.

The author of the article in question has written other pieces in a similar, if not so blatantly biased, vein. She has been identified as the Catholicsm editor of beliefnet and is reported to be a graduate of Harvard and Stanford. I doubt she's advancing anyone's agenda, other than her own.