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Yup.
Just the way I was brought up, and wouldn't even give it a second thought.
Yes I'd give up my seat.
Beat it. I was here first.
I'm not sure what I'd do.
The "revolving doors" thread got me thinking. When the anic went down, 80% of the men died. The notion of "Women and Children first" was a dominant part of our culture at the time. Moving ahead to present times, if you were on a ship that was going down, would you surrender your seat in the lifeboat to a woman and go down with the ship simply because she is a woman?
I'd surely give up my seat to a child. But for a Woman, I'm not so sure.
Yup.
Just the way I was brought up, and wouldn't even give it a second thought.
Well, things are different today. Today, ships usually have enough lifeboats for all the passengers and crew. I personally would, but I wouldn't blame someone for not doing so.
It's really hard to say. I can say, "Yeah, I'd give up my seat" because it's the easy answer but I don't know how I'd react in the actual situation.
Honestly, I think guilt would overwhelm me if I were being lowered in a life boat while watching others left behind... Women, children, even other men. But on the other hand, if I'm on that boat with my family it would be hard to send them off without me.
My guess is my adrenaline would kick in and I'd stay behind to help as many people as possible, then try my damnedest to swim.
I would.
I'd give it up and then fight like to stay alive.
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Yeah, if my family were with me, the first thing I'd do is make sure they got into a lifeboat and said lifeboat was safely lowered to the water. If time permitted, I'd do whatever I could to help others. But when time is running out, I'm getting a seat to make sure my children grow up with a Father.
Screw swimming. I'd go find something that floats and tie it to me.My guess is my adrenaline would kick in and I'd stay behind to help as many people as possible, then try my damnedest to swim.
Like some extra life vests and a deck chair.
Maybe snag a bottle of Rum from the bar if there's enough time.
Yeah floating would be ideal.
All I know is I'm taking a gun with me in case drowning becomes inevitable. drowning.
there's a problem with that way of thinking. You're assuming your family will be able to get into one of the boats, but if every man on the ship thinks the way you do, then they probably won't. Every man wants their family to grow up with a father, thats the problem.
Thats pretty much my take as well. If it was a woman with her child, sure.... but just because they are a woman? screw that, you can swim just as well as I can according to most women.
Equal rights is so full of crap in regards to opposite sex situations, there's so many double standards its not even funny.
I guess I should have added, "It would depend on the cir stances" as one of the poll questions.
If the Woman convinced me she had kids back home and that she was the sole parent, I'd give up the seat. I couldn't live with myself If I was the reason children had been orphaned. I'm sure there are a few other cir stances similar to that in which I'd give up the seat.
On the same token... what if there was a single father who has a child.... would then a women be expected to give up her seat?
LMAO. I answered the poll before I read Brewski's post. I thought you were talking about a bus seat.
, I better avoid cruises from now on because somebody might dig up this poll.
I don't believe I'd deserve a seat just because I'm a woman. But faced with the knowledge that if I died my children would be left with my basically worthless ex-husband...I'd either be taking everyone down with me or figuring out how to walk on water.
Fair enough. But lets say it's some snooty rich lady who strolls up with a bottle of Dom Perignon in one hand, and her pink poodle in the other. You still givin up that seat?
"I'll never put on a life vest again."
If she gives it up then I'd give it up.
Chivalry died when the chicks wanted to be equal. You want to work , you stand.
No question. I would give my seat to any other person regardless of age or sex.
I'd give my seat up to SpursWoman....if I didn't, she'd kick my ass!
No, but if she's hot she can sit on my face.
Sadly, in today's world, there would not be any boats left floating, as everyone would try to get on the boats, thus sinking all of them. People nowadays only look out for themselves, for the most part. Sad commentary, but true.
Also, Spurminator, you would not drown, you would die of hypothermia.
I would get all the kids on the boat, pull the young men off and go down with the ship, I think, as I could not stand the scrutiny of being an able bodied man on the lifeboat when kids and women were left off.
If a man didn't give up his seat for a woman I'd file a lawsuit.
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