Men Are Willing to Die in Favor of “Ladies first”?
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The practice arose from the chivalrous actions of soldiers during sinking of HMS Birkenhead in 1852, though the phrase itself was not coined until 1860.[1] Although never part of international maritime law, the phrase was popularized in its usage on the RMS Titanic,[2] where, as a consequence of this practice, 74% of women on board were saved, and 52% of children—but only 20% of men.[3]
Unfortunately, some officers on the Titanic misinterpreted this order from Captain Smith to actually prevent men from boarding lifeboats. It was intended that women and children would board first, and any remaining free spaces would then be allocated to men. Because so few men were saved on the Titanic, the men who did survive were in danger of being branded as cowards.[4]
It is much a part of western culture that men are less valued than women as the mantra of "women first" still exists to the extent at which men are expected to die for their favor. In January 2009 a US Airways Airbus A320 flight 1549 with 120 passengers on board crashed into the Hudson River. Upon describing the incident and what ensued a passenger stated "At first chaos, but everyone was kind of orderly, man. You know after a while everyone, we just, I just kept saying relax relax, women and children first. And then it just started filling with water, quick." Heading toward the forward exits, and then standing on the wings, the passengers developed their pecking order. Women and children went first into the rafts, then people who had fallen into the river and been plucked out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism#Sexism_against_men
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kjcamel, sorry idont believe in your answer. EQUALITY matters most!
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Answer by Tracey
I believe in children first, period. It doesn't matter which gender accompanies the children.
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Some people are old-fashioned.
But really, I think the attitude today is, people less able to help themselves should be helped first. Despite the “women and children first” mantra that some may still pay lip service to, I’d be very surprised if a substantial number of people would aid, say, an able-bodied 14-year-old girl before a wheelchair-bound elderly WW2 vet.
It goes: 1. Little kids who can’t wipe, or can just barely manage to wipe, their own rear-ends, accompanied by Mommy and maybe one slightly older sibling, followed by 2. General older children under age 11 or 12 and older, disabled people followed by 3. fitter elderly people 4. adolescents 5. general adults, in a calm and orderly manner and, then, finally, 6. the truly gung-ho, hooah heroes, who are usually male with some women, who are not necessarily or even usually feminists.
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Cool, if the Titanic happened now, I could just grab a woman out the life boat and throw her overboard..survival of the fittest
First the children, then I think they should have had a huge gender fist fight and the surviving sex should have been allowed on the life boats. Survival of the fittest baby.
Women & Children first always; real men will always look after women & children first, before themselves. Men who say otherwise are considered cowards(like it or lump it, it’s the truth & that’s the way most normal people see it whether they openly admit it or not).
It wasn’t about equality when it started, it was about who could survive in the water. The women wore those huge dresses and corsets. When the Titanic sunk only 1 woman survived in the water compared to 3 dozen men. Another point is that the women didn’t want to leave their children, and I can’t blame them for that. As for now I think it should be anyone who can’t swim, children with a parent,and the disabled,then whoever else.
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