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As a young person, I just open doors for everyone, because it's a nice thing to do.

There's no reason to restrict nice things to people based on gender and it can be viewed as patronizing to do so.

Ah but my question was specific to ladies. You didn't have enough information from my answer to conclude I only open the door for ladies. I open doors for men too.

Why does the question have to be specific to ladies? The answer isn't.

If you read the grandfather comment. He specifically says he finds saying "ladies first" weird. If he has said he found saying "men first" weird I would have asked specifically about men.

Echoing what bobthepanda also replied - I hold the door open for _everyone_ when it makes sense for me to do so. It becomes weird when you specifically do it for women, or say words indicating that you're doing it because she's a woman - it comes across as patronizing, in my opinion.

The person who holds the door is the one that arrives first, or has a more convenient angle on holding the door open.