Fruits of feminism

A cruise ship crashed into rocks on an Italian island:

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.’

There's a lot more whining in the whole column.

Vox Popoli:

This was not so much predictable as predicted. Women have methodically attacked the concept of male duty and honor through every possible means for the past ninety years, and now they are whining that they don't get special treatment simply because a ship happens to be sinking. Why, exactly, should any man "prioritise women, expectant mothers and children"? On what grounds can they be reasonably expected to do so, those outdated traditional grounds that the schools teach is hateful, sexist, and bigoted?

Gender doesn't exist unless there's an emergency like a life or death situation -- then sacrifices are expected of only one gender.

How convenient.

Comments

[Classical Liberal]

This article http://www.bobkrumm.com/blog/?p=2364 argues it may be more of a cultural thing. I can tell you southern Europeans aren't big on queues. Don't get me started on Moroccans!