The Titanic and what men are like

By Denise Noe

Atlanta’s Civic Center currently has an exhibition of Titanic memorabilia. April 15 is Titanic Remembrance Day, making this a good period to review to lessons from that catastrophe.

Late on the night of April 14, 1912, the supposedly unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg. By next morning, the ship was on its way down.

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"The tradition grouping women with children is arguably “fair” because the physical differences between men and women mean that the former have a greater chance of swimming to safety. However, those chances can be minuscule. The rule means men must die so women can live."

"All too often, men as a sex are judged by the worst actions of some: the rapist, the batterer, or the child molester. While individual men may be credited for the good they do, the positives are, unlike the negatives, rarely used to show “what they’re like” as a gender. However, the truth is that men have criminalized and punished the worst that some men do. They have sometimes mandated the best. Warren Farrell in his groundbreaking book, “The Myth of Male Power” pertinently asks, “If men make the rules, what does it say about men that they make rules demanding that they put the lives of women before their own?”"

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