Women and children first!

>Women and children first!
Why?

>inb4 the copypasta where Captain Smith calls for the death of all white males

This is some /pol/ tier bullshit. If you honestly need to ask this question, and you're not trolling; then you need to ask better questions than this to educate yourself on a macro scale.

What kind of questions should I be aksing?

>chivalry

if only the MRA had not missed the departure by a few minutes! We'd have had a lot more balanced gender ratio among the survivors. Fucking roasties!!

Here. We're just going to be this out of the way.
So what could possibly be the reason to save women and children first? Biologically speaking, women are more important to production than males. If you lose a male, the next one steps in and continues reproduction. He can impregnate multiple women in a 9 month period, while the woman can only do so once in a 9 month period. Children are obvious too. They are the future, to put it in basic terms. On top of that, we have a patriarchy society. Men are the warriors, the protectors. It is our chivalrous duty to protect those smaller and weaker than us (women and children) and that has been instilled in almost every male in society since before written language.

Pretty much this, if we want to boil it down to the layman's point.

Do you want an actual answer?

Because the women and children were the vulnerable and most likely to die during the sinking, and so the Captain gave an order for them to be put into the boats first in order to ensure they wouldn't just be left to die. Statistically, Titanic is an anomaly in that women and children had higher survival rates. In almost every passenger liner wreck in the last 150 years except for 2 (Titanic and Birkenhead, which in context had only 7 women on board) crew members and male passengers had a significantly higher survival rate than women or children. Captains didn't usually go down with the ship either, but secured themselves spots on lifeboats early on.

in Titanic's case, the Captain's orders were interpreted differently, with one side of the ship abiding by "women and children only," and the other "women and children first," meaning men were let on after all the women and children in the area were boarded. And the boats did not follow the directive to remain nearby and pick people up from the water, which could have theoretically saved hundreds if it hadn't been the wrong conditions for water rescue.

Titanic had the benefit of being an extremely slow sinking. So what normally happens on sinking ships--crew and younger men push and force their way onto decks, get into the lifeboats, take the life belts, etc--didn't happen. Because there was no immediate danger, the crew and passengers didn't begin reacting out if impulse or acting on survival instincts, allowing them to uphold some type of social conventions. Hence you have people having the time and forethought to give up seats on lifeboats, or escort women to the lifeboats, or sit around and smoke cigars. There was more violence and chaos in the final half hour but nothing compared to what normally happens on a sinking ship.

Because men can take care of themselves.

Because they are more valuable in terms of procreation.

Indeed. /ss/ is the patrician form of procreation.

Tell that to Leo.

Women are stronger and can survive in tough situations much better than men. You're all sexist pieces of shit for thinking otherwise.

>anything I don't like is LE POL BOOGEYMAN

Bait. Clearly sexist in the opposite direction

That's not what I said you uneducated faggot. Anyone with a child's level understanding of caste systems understand why women and children were first, and this was little more than a ploy to discuss sexism. Women and children are naturally weaker than men. In almost every single species, males are larger and stronger than females and children. This isn't a hard concept if you're stupid. Unfortunately for you, you're part of that stupid demographic.

>Women and children are naturally weaker than men
Says the sexist shitlord.

>Women and children only

Th-thanks Lightoller

Leo had the mind of a child and was essentially raped by a manipulative 1% that later used him as a meat shield.

Titanic is about class struggle.

Shut up, stupid.

Because you can breed with the women, and children are the future

>Ahahahaha! I'll pretend to be a FEMINAZI and those TUMBLRTARDS on /leftypol/ won't know what hit 'em!!!

shitlord

you're welcome for DUNKIRK

So you're implying that women are physically weaker than men? You make me sick. If I knew where you lived, I'd castrate you.

>with one side of the ship abiding by "women and children only,"

Whoever interpreted it like that has some real head problems. Im talking you have to use OR or XOR when giving them inatruction

>kekekekeke When I share this with the fellas they'll really think I'm cool

>it is a white knights defend their m'ladies' privileges thread

Children first is OK but women should also stay behind and wait with men.

Because men (and boys too) are worthless.

I'm just curious man. Why argue against facts? If you're trolling why are you trollong Veeky Forums? There are plenty of other boards to do so, and you should do it there. Go troll /pol/ with your sexism shitposts. This is a board for history and humanities. Wouldn't it be more beneficial for you to apply yourself? I get trolling for fun, but you're an adult. You don't act like a retard in public. There's a time and a place for everything and being an educated well adjusted adult means you recognize that. Don't be a stereotype.

>Whoever interpreted it like that has some real head problems.

To be fair, the Captain's orders were "get the women and the children in the boats and then lower away," so it's not an unreasonable interpretation. He then ordered that the boats stay nearby to pick up people from the water--presumably mostly men, who would be more likely to survive long enough to be picked up than a woman or child. None of the boats did so, mostly because the crew in charge of each boat knew how dangerous it would be.

The other problems come when they let boats go not even half-full, didn't implement any of the White Star Line protocol for the evacuation of the passengers, and despite having a truly unprecedented amount of time to organize an orderly evacuation it just... didn't happen. They could have saved almost every single passenger on board, perhaps even every passenger when you consider that about 105 were children and weighed far less then the adults used to determine how much weigh each boat could hold.

>You don't act like a retard
Not only are you prejudiced against women but you're an ableist as well. Do you have any idea how insensitive that word is?

Yeah, but no retard has ever done anything about it, so I continue to use it. Retard.

Children need their mothers more than their fathers.

Re-population, either you can bare kids or are a kid. Plus, women were seen as caregiver and husband provider, so women would be needed for taking care of the surviving kids.

>women can impregnate another woman once in 9 months

>Women are stronger and can survive in tough situations much better than men
Paradoxically in this particular case it's true, women are much more susceptible to survive in cold waters, due to the heat in their body being concentrated on organs and less on limbs.

>in almost every single species, males are larger and stronger than females
But that's wrong.