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Should the case be...

Let the 100 women get the... 90 24.13%
 
Let the 100 men get the l... 31 8.31%
 
Split the lifeboats 50/50 between the adults. 168 45.04%
 
Let everyone drown because I can't decide. 84 22.52%
 
Total:373
Metroid33slayer said:
John2290 said:

Im sure many of the people who frequent these forums are of the mind not to pay attention to the feminist radicals, feminazi's as some call them, so Im sure this post won't blow into discrimination of a certain gender. 

Here goes. There's 300 people on a sinking ship and 100 lifeboats that seat just one person and a child. In days past the women and children would get the life boats and the 100 men would be left to drown. 

So, by today's standards do we put 50 men and 50 women on the boats along with the children or do the women and children first, as has always been the case?

Of course that is just a completely ludicrous situation but what say you?

Thoughts? 

Firefighters will always save the women first in the event of a fire. In hostage situations you always hear the phrase " at least let the women and children go" and young men have been sent to die on battlefields for centuries. Men have always been disposable and whlie up untill recently men have had more freedoms and oppurtunities, the lives  of men have always been valued less than the lives of women. This is one of the reasons why are species has been successful because the baby makers have been protected. You don't need many men to repopulate the species but you will always need lots of women.

What kind of bizarre situation are you imagining where there are so few humans left alive that we have all available fertile women being impregnated to repopulate the planet again? I mean even if we were after such a disaster where you really had to have each woman capable of reproducing doing so every year then you would be in a situation where in breeding would happen quickly due to the tiny gene pool you would be dealing with.

Just saying, think in your head, in reality where would you be lining up the available girls to breed? also... in any scenario you have 100 kids with you already, gonna guess they're 50/50 male / female so even with a complete 50/50 split of the adults you will be ending up with 100men and 100women on your life rafts if all 100 are filled to capacity.



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By today's standard seats on the lifeboats should be sold at 120% capacity and surcharge will apply for every child sharing a seat. First comes first serve after the priority first class seats have boarded.



Zkuq said:
Lawlight said:
Zkuq said:
Lawlight said:
hollabackenny said:
Why are arguments against feminism always such ridiculous scenarios?

If you can't stay on topic, don't post.

 

Feminists today is really not about equality, it is about power over the other gender and personal benefit.

You don't respond to a counter-argument by saying it's not on topic, then state an opinion. That's not how it works.

And just for the record, I'm all for equality and I largely despise modern feminism. I'd also split the places if I had to choose one of the options in the poll.

It's not an opinion.

It's an opinion or simply a lie until you back it up with facts. And if you find the facts to back you up, then you're off-topic yourself and need another thread for it. A thread for which I have no interest in but maybe someone else has.

Also, you completely ignored my point.


Yeah, let me look for facts about how feminists are fighting for the right to be drafted or equal opportunity in high risk jobs. Are they fighting for equal sentencing for similar crimes too?



Ridicilous question. Do you really want to make a point with such nonsense. :)

By the way: Todays ships have always enough lifeboats for all passengers. If you go on a ship in some obscure country where this is not the law you should thing twice before going onboard.

Besides, I heard this was a tradition because in old times many women could not swim (or had not been allowed to learn it).



The new rage is all about the fear of feminism it seems but yeah,fighting something unharmfull is safer than solving reallifeproblems.
The minority of smallminded extreme people do not represent feminism as a whole .

So yeah i find the OP a bit farfetched.



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Its a no brainer.
Its nature, biology.

100 women can get pregnant from 1 man.
Its a instinct of the species. For initial survival we need more women alive.
And some men.
The prefect percentage women/men for survival cant be discussed in times of danger, at that moment.
So of course the kids must be saved first with the women.
And the species needs as much men as can survive. The men also have a greater chance to survive the danger on their own.

Thats the reason. Out of the women some will not be able to get pregnent, some will die from illnes or after giving birth. So the species needs many women to survive. And at least some men. 

You guys do know it takes 1 woman 9 month to deliver a hopefully healthy baby right.



''Hadouken!''

Well logically, people will normally prioritise their children anyway, and I would sacrifice myself if it meant getting my family to safety as would most fathers. So it just makes sense really. I'm sure the feminists wouldn't mind getting on the boat first either, so everyone's happy.



You guys have lost some of your basic instincts if you dont understand this.
By the way, besides nature and survival of the species, which man would not let his sister or wife get in safety first?

Whats wrong with you people..



''Hadouken!''

So there is no gender equality here, and thats a fact.
Men cant give birth to children.

We men, should not let feminists or women in general or other men influence our actions in a negative way.
We are men, we will save children and women first.
I'm not gonna stop behaving like a man in any way, because of whatever other people say or think. So stop pointing at women like crybabies.

Thats what being a real man is about. Just having a penis does not make you a real man.
Only your actions do.



''Hadouken!''

John2290 said:
ganoncrotch said:
Metroid33slayer said:
John2290 said:

Im sure many of the people who frequent these forums are of the mind not to pay attention to the feminist radicals, feminazi's as some call them, so Im sure this post won't blow into discrimination of a certain gender. 

Here goes. There's 300 people on a sinking ship and 100 lifeboats that seat just one person and a child. In days past the women and children would get the life boats and the 100 men would be left to drown. 

So, by today's standards do we put 50 men and 50 women on the boats along with the children or do the women and children first, as has always been the case?

Of course that is just a completely ludicrous situation but what say you?

Thoughts? 

Firefighters will always save the women first in the event of a fire. In hostage situations you always hear the phrase " at least let the women and children go" and young men have been sent to die on battlefields for centuries. Men have always been disposable and whlie up untill recently men have had more freedoms and oppurtunities, the lives  of men have always been valued less than the lives of women. This is one of the reasons why are species has been successful because the baby makers have been protected. You don't need many men to repopulate the species but you will always need lots of women.

What kind of bizarre situation are you imagining where there are so few humans left alive that we have all available fertile women being impregnated to repopulate the planet again? I mean even if we were after such a disaster where you really had to have each woman capable of reproducing doing so every year then you would be in a situation where in breeding would happen quickly due to the tiny gene pool you would be dealing with.

Just saying, think in your head, in reality where would you be lining up the available girls to breed? also... in any scenario you have 100 kids with you already, gonna guess they're 50/50 male / female so even with a complete 50/50 split of the adults you will be ending up with 100men and 100women on your life rafts if all 100 are filled to capacity.

Plus the fact that you need genetic diversity on the men's side, so you do need more men than this guy thinks or there would be rampant health problems. 1 man to 100 women, even though it's a damp nice thought, isn't going to cut it. More like one man for two women, maybe more I'f you use geography to spread the sperm over the female population,  to give greater genetic diversity. 

Indeed, 100 women with a single man, every single child born in this civilization will be half brothers/sisters. with 50% the same DNA as each other, the genetic defects would start to build within 2-3 generations not to mention the psychological damage being done forcing brothers and sisters to mate to breed....we are not cats, humans are very prone to issues from inbreeding.

1 single bad gene in the male could also lead to the whole civilization coming apart, while people like to imagine that Women add more to the formation of a child because of where the ovum is incubated unfortunately at a genetic level you get 23 chromosomes from your Father and 23 from your mother, that is the building blocks that you are created from. Chances of the second generation not having some clashing genes coming from the single father are zero.



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