Consider the following three scenarios: (1) Santiago is walking toward a business office, and when he gets there, he opens the door for a woman and allows her to walk through ahead of him. (2) Santiago is walking toward a business office, and when he gets there, he opens the door for a man and a woman and allows both of them to walk through ahead of him. (3) Santiago is walking toward a business office, and when he gets there, he opens the door for a woman and allows her to walk through ahead of him, but then he walks through without holding the door for the man with whom the woman was having a conversation. In which of these scenarios has Santiago demonstrated the BEST example of benevolent sexism?

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The question asks us to evaluate scenarios in terms of benevolent sexism, which involves chivalrous or protective attitudes toward women that ostensibly treat them kindly but reinforce gender stereotypes and unequal power.
Option 1: scenario #1. Santiago opens the door for a woman and lets her walk through first. This demonstrates a courteous gesture toward a woman, but on its own it does not show bias against men; it’s a single benevolent action toward a woman without excluding or devaluing men. As a result, it reflects a polite social norm rather than a clear instance of benevolent sexism.
Option 2: scenarios #1 and #2 combined. In scenario #2, Santiago opens the door for both a man and a woman and allows both to go first. This removes the gendered distinction and treats both individuals equally in the action, which undermines the idea of benevolent sexism by not privileging one gender over the other. Therefore, this option weakens the interpretation of benevolent sexism compared to a scenario that privileges women.
Option 3: scenario #3. Here, Santiago opens the door for a woman and allows her to walk through ahead of him (a benevolent gesture toward a woman), but then he moves through without holding the door for the man who is part of the woman’s conversation earlier. The combination of favoring one gender with a courtesy not extended to another, while maintaining a public display of consideration toward women, captures a pattern of benevolent sexism more clearly than the other options because it simultaneously preserves traditional gender norms (women receive special treatment) and subtly excludes men from the same courtesy.
Option 4: There is no scenario where Santiago shows benevolent sexism toward both genders in a manner that reinforces unequal treatment. This option would be inaccurate because benevolent sexism relies on asymmetry—giving special favors to women in a way that supports traditional gender roles. In the given choices, only one scenario clearly introduces that asymmetry by privileging a woman over a man while maintaining a courteous act toward women.
Overall, the analysis shows that the structures in options 1 and 2 are either neutral or egalitarian with respect to gender, while option 3 uniquely blends a favorable act toward women with a deliberate omission toward a man, which aligns with the concept of benevolent sexism more than the other options.

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