Cruiseliner disaster: "Women and children first" Still relevant today?

[henkalv]

Gentleman in training FTW!

Oh and yes I would go for the "children and women first", but that is due to me being a tad old fashioned, not that I think that woman are somehow incapable. That 15% muscle mass advantage men have at birth is not that big of an advantage.

um, they simply ARE less capable in the event of basically any disaster situation that you can think of.

how is that offensive? how many disasters does the average woman experience anyways for that fact to even bother her? if someone told me women are better at handling some situation that I barely ever come across, I wouldn't even care enough to act offended, and that's even if it was blatantly wrong.


even in the event in which you would voluntarily "sacrifice" your life for a stranger on no other basis than what their gender is, you still feel the need to reassure them that they could just as well handle it themselves?

i'm a guy, but if someone who didn't even know me was willing to sacrifice their life to save mine based on some nonsensical rationalization they held, i sure as hell wouldn't mind it if they claimed to be better at handling the situation. how petty do you imagine women to be?

I have been yelled at for holding a door. You have not meet hardcore feminists before you meet some of the ones one of my friends hang out with. Simply put, they would find that offensive.

And no, in such an event I would not be going "It is not because you are weaker" or something like that, I would be going "get into the fucking boat now!"

 

[Verzin]

Children first I could agree too: Children technically have the potential to have more to live for than adults.
women first? that's where you lose me. Just my personal opinion, but this seems to me to be based off of an archaic mentality where women are more fragile than men: that they must be protected. I've always felt that such an attitude is quite sexist, though disgustingly approved by popular culture (in america anyway. I'm woefully ignorant of popular culture in other countries).