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It's not that women don't want men to hold a door open for them. We just don't want you to push past us in order to get to the door before us just so that you can open it for us and put us in our traditional place. And, if I get to the door before you and gesture for you to go before me for example because your hands are full, just walk through the damned door! Don't say "No no, we can't have any of that" and hold the door open with your foot until I give up in disgust, just so that we maintain the gender expectations.
And regarding "never before in human history", well, I have to say that IS exaggerating. "Human history" is usually defined as what we have written or oral records for. This leaves out large swaths of human heritage and experiences, from Aboriginals to stone age peoples. There's no real way to tell what might have gone on in cultures that we don't have records for. So saying this has never happened in human history is being quite disingenuous, even if technically accurate.
