Custom accounts for a lot. If you both get out of the way, you collide, too. So a convention arises under which each person knows whether to deviate or not. (I’m assuming that there is no issue of lane discipline here, that the women “standing their ground” are actually walking in what convention regards as the proper lane for people going in their direction.) The same “rule” that allows most women to exit elevators first may allow men to maintain their course. No one gets hurt. For every woman who feels getting out of the way is submissive, there’s a man holding a door who could feel like a slave, but doesn’t.

The unsubtlety of the woke is exceeded only by their smugness.