sinesalvatorem

The professor was giving us protocols for formal interaction. He said it was important to introduce people of higher rank first when introducing multiple people. As an intuitive Socialist, I was annoyed by all of these, since everyone is a comrade. However, some of these were worse than others:

The order, by rank and status, was as follows:

  • Bishops before priests
  • Prime ministers before cabinet ministers
  • Bosses before employees
  • Teachers before students
  • Parents before children
  • Men before women

…What the serious fuck

worldoptimization

That’s weird–Miss Manners says pretty much the same thing about introductions, but says that women outrank men, and everything I found on Google just now agrees with her. I wonder if this is a [country of origin redacted] thing, or if your professor is just wrong.