I know plenty of men who lived through that era (and one man who was born 4 years after Feynman) who are not in the slightest bit sexist. Or are at least far too polite to show it.

Feynman was clearly a bit of a prick. It also appears that he behaved rudely toward women [0]. In my opinion, the fact that there were some (significant) negative aspects of his personality doesn't take anything away from what he accomplished, or from the (significant) positive aspects of his personality.

[0] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...

The above described behaviour was at the very least extremely bad manners .. even in the 60s/70s.

Why is asking people for something is bad manners? Especially as you put it "extremely bad manners"?

I suggest that you try asking random women in the office to bring you soup and see how that goes.

Heh, for an even better reaction he should try asking random men in the office to bring him soup.

Depending on his workplace, things could become physical :D