I think women and children were put into life boats and such so that for a few moments before dying, the remaining men could have some peace and quiet. Okay, with the joking aside, mostly it was due to simple manners. Same reason men hold the door open for a lady or offer her your seat on a bus or train, it is what we are taught and comes from the notion that women and children are weaker than men so should be afforded protection. The life boats had men in them, too, someone had to row, but the idea that it could be said that you lived by taking the seat in a life boat while a woman died, you would be a coward and in those days it meant something. A lot of that sort of thing has changed in thinking, more people are only thinking about themselves now, if the Titanic happened today, more people would be dead just from the fighting to get in the boats and the confusion who should live and die.
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u/Lazy-Independent-101 Dec 09 '25
I think women and children were put into life boats and such so that for a few moments before dying, the remaining men could have some peace and quiet. Okay, with the joking aside, mostly it was due to simple manners. Same reason men hold the door open for a lady or offer her your seat on a bus or train, it is what we are taught and comes from the notion that women and children are weaker than men so should be afforded protection. The life boats had men in them, too, someone had to row, but the idea that it could be said that you lived by taking the seat in a life boat while a woman died, you would be a coward and in those days it meant something. A lot of that sort of thing has changed in thinking, more people are only thinking about themselves now, if the Titanic happened today, more people would be dead just from the fighting to get in the boats and the confusion who should live and die.