Re: "Equality" for can't-cope-won't-cope feminist wusses


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>>Ken wrote:
>> Many boats were not loaded to full capacity. There were many reasons for
>> this; at first, many women and children were simply unwilling to be
>> lowered 65 feet from the boat deck to the water.

> Bob wrote:
> How selfish of them. Murderously so, since it should have been
> obvious that empty spaces == dead people.

Perhaps instead of insisting on, "women and children first," they should
have gone with "families with children first." That way mothers and
children wouldn't have become seperated from their husbands and the children
from their fathers. The women would have felt more reassured having their
husbands with them on those lifeboats. More boats could have been filled to
capacity. The unfortunate outcome would still have meant single men being
left behind.

I find it appalling that the reason they didn't have all the lifeboats
needed on deck was based on "aesthetics"...the owners didn't want the ship
looking too cluttered up! <sigh> So, for the sake of beautifying a ship,
1,500 people died! <sigh>

Heidi




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