I am surprised I have not come across this story before. Here are the interesting parts:
The chivalry displayed on the Titanic, which proved to many people that women didn’t need the vote, demonstrated precisely the opposite to suffragists. From their perspective, it was women who were best equipped to enact the self-sacrificing behavior that surfaced in men only in extraordinary circumstances. “There was no need that a single life should have been lost upon the Titanic,” Alice Stone Blackwell wrote. “There will be far fewer lost by preventable accidents, either on land or sea, when the mothers of men have the right to vote.” Women, in other words, would have made sure there was legislation requiring enough lifeboats to save everyone on board.
Here we go again with the superiority claim. Women, with their amazing foresight would have planned better. This all stems from the belief that women would purify and soften politics. I have not received a good answer yet, or any answer, as to why politics is no better today (more likely worse) now that women are voting?
In a letter to the editor of the Baltimore Sun, a writer who identified herself only as “A Woman” pointed out that letting women and children into the lifeboats wasn’t especially chivalrous. It was the least the men could have done, since the sinking was their fault. “After all, the women on the boat were not responsible for the disaster,” and it would have been “gross injustice to decree that the women, who have no voice in making and enforcing law on land or sea, should be left aboard a sinking ship, victims of man’s cupidity.”
I suppose that is one good thing about women voting today is they are forced to own it. When the country collapses, can’t blame it on the men.
Western Civilization is the Titanic and womyn voters are the iceberg.
When the country collapses, can’t blame it on the men.
In all seriousness, the men will still get the blame. Even if all the female reps and senators got together and somehow managed to sell the country to the Chinese(or whomever) – and it was caught with audio and video – the men would still get the blame.
Speaking of women in Congress….I believe there are now 20 female senators and the number of representatives reaches into the 80′s. It will be interesting to see how they apply their abstract, feel-good political wisdom towards their office duties. Maybe I’m being a bit uncharitable but this can’t be good for the country.
Because the Titanic would never have been built.
To paraphrase Camille Paglia: If women could have voted, mankind would still be in the trees.
Okra,
Yes, and the tradcons keep trying to rearrange the deck chairs.
Men take risks and amazing things happen. Men take risks and die or get seriously injured. This is what is called “Living Life”. Women seem to have an issue with taking risk but they do love using the inventions made from taking risks. Perhaps they should just shut up.
@Feminist Hater: If you are female, KISS ME!
Eh, sorry to disappoint, but I haz penas!
So if the women who left in the boats before all the seats were filled were in charge, there would have been enough seats in the boats for everyone?
Oddly enough, this may be true. The conclusion is wrong, plain and simple. However, if women had the vote pre-Titanic, we would have seen a greatly reduced or non-extant industrial revolution. Women tend to vote authoritarian, i.e. pro government. Any enterprise a government touches has a strong tendency to crash and burn like the Hindenburg. Therefore, it is unlikely the technological progress would have been made that allowed the titanic to be built. We would, of course, be dying of sicknesses long since conquered, brilliant minds of late 19th and early 20th centuries never would have bothered in the face of bureaucratic lunacy, and we would never have our current standard of living, but that is a small price to pay for feminism, right?
Men will ALWAYS get the blame. There are more than a few traditionalist women running around blaming men for Feminism right now. Also, some woman on Twitter was saying yesterday that the alleged travesty of women in combat roles would never happen if men weren’t so “weak.”
A womyn captain would have tried to negotiate with the iceberg. After all, it had legitimate grievances. It was there first and this ship was invading its territory.
I don’t understand. When you speak of women, are you talking about yourself and how you feel?
@DMG
Who are you addressing?
I wonder if women could have prevented this,
http://m.freep.com/localnews/article?a=2013130210029&f=1232