"Women and children first"

[lumberjack_jeff]

Poll question: "Women and children first"

[Tripod]

1. That is what I am thinking.

Unless it is going into the eye of a tornado. LOL

[comtec]

2. maybe im just an old fashioned sexist...

But the survival of the species seems more important than me.
but im noble and stupid like that.
LoL better i'm not in the gene pool anyway.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. If it's a good idea, doesn't that mean that some forms of sexism are okay?

Namely, women are more important?

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[lumberjack_jeff]

5. I ask the question because my cultural conditioning and my belief in equality are at odds.

On the one hand, everyone (including myself) seems to accept that part of the role of a man is bodyguard. She goes into the lifeboat before him. It is a ubiquitous social understanding.
On the other hand, if women are presumed to need a bodyguard, and/or are too valuable to risk, then doesn't this have implications on military service? Public safety hiring?

Society is laced thoroughly with this basic conceptual frame. Every good social policy is sold by relying heavily on the rhetorical device of how much women need it, with good reason; selling social programs on their benefit to men would be completely counterproductive, neither men nor women will support it on that basis.

Is equality possible? When push comes to shove, very few people really seem to want it.

[CreekDog]

6. I think this was covered in a Seinfeld

:P

[brendan120678]

7. This question reminds me of a female acquaintance I had...

back in college.

She absolutely refused to enter a door if it was being held open for her by a man.
I, being raised a gentleman by my parents, have this "annoying" habit of holding the door open for anyone who may be either entering or exiting at the same time as me.

This one girl, however, would stop dead in her tracks and give whoever was holding the door open a cold stare, not saying anything; and she wouldn't move until the door-holder had given up and proceeded.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. In my experience there are two kinds of people who will say thanks when you hold the door for them.

Men and retirement-aged women.