A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, until the ship she is pleasure cruising on threatens to turn suddenly into a tomb.
Fights broke out to get into the lifeboats, men refused to prioritise women, expectant mothers and children as they pushed themselves forward to escape. Crew ignored their passengers – leaving ‘chefs and waiters’ to help out.
In heart-rending footage, recorded on mobile phones, British children could be heard shouting ‘Daddy’ and ‘Mummy’ in the melee.
As she waited for a flight home from Rome, grandmother Sandra Rogers, 62, told the Daily Mail: ‘There was no “women and children first” policy. There were big men, crew members, pushing their way past us to get into the lifeboats. It was disgusting.’
Disgusting but, after several decades of unrelenting assault on men and the concept of maleness across the entire West, hardly surprising.
She said: ‘I want everyone to know how badly some people behaved. It was a nightmare. I lost my daughter and my grandchildren in the chaos.
‘I was standing by the lifeboats and men, big men, were banging into me and knocking the girls. It was awful. There was a total lack of organisation. There was no one telling people where to go.
‘And when we finally got into a lifeboat, people, grown men, were trying to jump into the boat. I thought, if they land in here we are going to capsize…’
It’s apparent that the Costa Concordia’s crew and the men aboard at the time have fully internalized feminism’s harder edge. Huzzah?!?
Read the first part of “Lord Jim”. Heck, read all of it.
Feminists should be pleased at this. After all, “women and children first” is deeply sexist.
So, because women want to be treated as complete human beings by men, they deserve to be brutalized and left to die? What kind of sick mentality is that?
That’s not what I said. The word “deserved” never came up and isn’t appropriate.
Wow, what post did you read??
WTF?
The main point was that as a society, the vast majority are not going to react well when disaster strikes because the language needed to condition the soul to do so is no longer common currency–done in by relativism and World War I, among other things. Done in by literary elites.
Charles Neider was a writer who, later in life, started working on books about polar exploration. He got a chance to visit McMurdo. While there, a helicopter he was in crashed on the side of Mount Erebus. It took a while to get rescued. He was able note in his book about the trip, surely with some pride, and in contrast to some of the others that were with him (including the crew), that he “had behaved well”.
And I think that is what we should all strive for, all, but in particular men. To prepare ourselves so that if the moment ever comes, we will behave well.
Congratulations.
That’s as perfect an example as I’ve ever seen of someone pulling a point out of the place they normally sit on and then trying to force an article into it.
You might, however, invest in reading comprehension courses.
recently read somewhere that when the titanic sank, it was women and children not only first, but pretty much only. it said there were numerous seats on life boats that went empty in that the crews launched them without allowing any men to fill them.
guess this women and children first was different from that one, eh?
Why didn’t they channel their “Warrior Princess” and simply kick those men aside 12 at a time? Be careful what you wish for.
I was just having a conversation the other day that if an asteroid hit the Earth the first thing to go would be feminism followed in short order by other cultural conceits such as gay marriage, vegetarianism, lactose intolerance, all people are created equal and welfare.
Using this episode as a paradigm, it isn’t hard to see why the history of the world had been a male one until those males carved out kingdoms by force of arms and concepts of “rights” that the weak and incompetent embraced as if they themselves did the deed. This disconnect is the source of some bemused bitterness at the stridency with which certain groups assert their “rights.”
It used to be to the victors go the spoils but until that mythical asteroid strike, assume the double standard that allows Vet’s Hospitals to be 98% male while at the same time women are lobbying for equal pay laws to continue.
Let’s be clear about what constitutes “rights”; it is the ability to enforce those rights without calling or blaming someone else.
Anyone remember the old Python sketch? “Women, children, red Indians, spacemen, and sort of idealized versions of the complete Renaissance man first!”
“….There were men, big men, crew members, pushing their way past us to get into the lifeboats. It was disgusting…”
Speaking of disgusting, that the worst case of gender profiling I have ever seen!
“…In heart-rending footage, recorded on mobile phones, British children could be heard shouting ‘Daddy’ and ‘Mummy’ in the melee…..”
If these British children had cell phones, why didn’t they simply dial 999 and wait for the authorities to promptly respond and save their lives?
You may want to dig into the nationalities of the crew. I doubt they were British or Italian (or French or American or Canadian or Australian or Irish or German).
It was funny when George Costanza pushed women and children out of his way while shouting, “FIRE! FIRE!” in that Seinfeld episode.
In real life? Not so much.
let me suggest a solution to the problem of women wanting to be equal, and yet ready to assume the mantle of 1st victim in a tight spot like this.
it should be children (under 16) and then women. they should ask if there are any feminists aboard as they will need to stay behind with the men.
it probably wouldn’t be a good time to try to have a feminist rally to show solidarity and support.
Honestly! Who would expect any of the happy helpers cruise lines hire to be there for you in a time of crisis?
Really? They are not sailors and I’ve noticed a disproportionate number of gays working on cruise ships. If your thinking—”He said something about gays, he’s gayaphobic”—your nuts! The point is those men are ‘Gay’ and think they are woman, so shouldn’t they get on the boats first…?
Depending on someone else for your safety is risky and if you decide to run the risk of putting your safety in someones hands, you had better make plan B.