Women's rights not enough

From Amber Duran at the Standard

On Jan. 13, 2012, an Italian cruise ship (the Costa Concordia) partially sank off the coast of Tuscany. There were 4,252 people on board. Thirty people died and 64 people were injured.

However, the big story about this event was when the captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino — and much of his crew — abandoned the ship without much thought to the women and children on board.

In other words, it was not a Titanic-type situation where the women and children were offered the lifeboats first.

It was every person for themselves and yet there were documented complaints from women on board that the men fended for themselves without thought to the women or children first.

Is it the man’s responsibility to think of the women and children first or have times changed in the wake of feminism?

I can’t claim to know the answer to that question. After all, it’s a pretty big question, and I’m not a pro on gender issues.

Wow, I think she might actually get it. (H/T: Instapundit)