You ever ever ever stop to think that since they usually take women and children first... and the men stay behind for a while and be all heroic that maybe they were making them lift their shirts to make sure they really were female. I don't agree with it anymore than any of you do... and it's not justifiable but maybe they had a good reason.
Because...men...deserve to be rescued less than women...so if they were men, then they shouldn't have been rescued?
That's the most screwed up logic I ever heard.
Also, considering the mass chaos surrounding the Katrina evacuation, I don't think women and children were exactly evacuated first. I didn't hear a lot of stories of men "being all heroic by staying behind." People tried to stick together with their families and look after each other. This wasn't a sinking ship, it was a city. I'm pretty sure that the rescuers rescued whoever they found.
And if the news story is true (see above thread re: Onion) then I think that no, there is no good reason that you could come up with for that sort of action.
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(Anonymous) 2005-09-10 04:01 am (UTC)(link)I don't agree with it anymore than any of you do... and it's not justifiable but maybe they had a good reason.
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That's the most screwed up logic I ever heard.
Also, considering the mass chaos surrounding the Katrina evacuation, I don't think women and children were exactly evacuated first. I didn't hear a lot of stories of men "being all heroic by staying behind." People tried to stick together with their families and look after each other. This wasn't a sinking ship, it was a city. I'm pretty sure that the rescuers rescued whoever they found.
And if the news story is true (see above thread re: Onion) then I think that no, there is no good reason that you could come up with for that sort of action.