# ZPG Zealot: A troll too far **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-a-troll-too-far/567621 "2011-01-14T17:55:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 83
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-a-troll-too-far/567621/83 "2011-01-14T23:24:58Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > But ZPG Zealot is at least as immersed in American culture as she is in any other, so she has no excuse for applying sinister motives to \*American \*men who initiate a handshake, which is, after all, deeply ingrained in American culture. Actually, it isn’t ingrained in many American cultural groups. I grew up in the old South where men only extended their hands first to hookers. Most of my families close non-Roma friends were orthodox Jews or Latino, none of them ever pawed at women, well hookers in bars maybe, but not women they respected. In fact, the only American cultural group that I know of where sticking out a hand at a woman is accepptable is the lower working class sort of redneck culture where the people don’t know how to act like polite members of society. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-a-troll-too-far/567621)._