to wonder if titanic sank in 2012 would it be women and children first

[McHappyPants2012]

or would sex discrimination and equal rights mean first came first served.

It would be every person for themselves. Chivalry is dead, equal opportunity rules and the strongest win.

Two words: Costa Concordia

It would probably be the captain and the crew first...wait a minute, that DID happen recently didn't it?

Well it wasn't REALLY women and children first in 1912 either!

i guess it depends - if the captain were female, presumably she'd be last off.

I would hope not, it would be plain wrong

Children before adults I would hope.

Judging by the way I regularly get kicked and elbowed in the scrum for the train home, I think it would seriously be everyone for themselves.

And again if the train is anything to go by, no fucker would move down the lifeboat to let more on either!

I also think there would be more third class passengers in those life boats these days, the chav's would fight back. Or maybe not would they be so unfit and pissed/high/suffering from COPD that they wouldn't be a match for the rugby playing/gym bunny mummy first class passengers

It shouldn't be. Everyone's life is equal, man, woman or child shouldn't matter.

Would our goats be allowed in the lifeboat?

depends where you were - the pigs were saved when the Bounty was sunk

Survival of the best fitted I'm afraid.

Yabu

I wouldn't be abiding by it anyway tbh.

zukiecat omg imagine the threads on Mn

It would be everyman for himself imo.

Many many moons ago when I worked as cabin crew we did the usual safety training where we evacuated passengers first however we were told that should the worst ever happen and we jumped ship first so to speak then we wouldn't be judged !

God no. Cos that wouldn't be fair to the adults without children would it? They pay their taxes you know. Why should they put themselves out for a child?

There would be no third class anymore....

you may be being facetious gaelicsheep but I certainly wouldn't.
If it were a situation like the recent cruise-ship, then I probably would as I'd have a fighting chance of swimming for it.
If it were the titanic in the middle of a near freezing ocean and not getting on a lifeboat would mean almost certain death I wouldn't be waiting around.

At least not on a transatlantic cruise....

I went to a Titanic exhibition and we were all given personae as we entered and were told on the way out if we had survived. I was a First Class Lady just like in real life so I knew I was OK. The two children I was with were commoners and both died. As someone said upthread, it wasn't women and children it was all the rich, then poor women and children.

my friend (yes I have one) went on a cruise and she said you got assigned life boats. so surely you would just get in that one.

but wasn't the problem with the recent cruise ship that the manner in which it had run aground meant it had pitched at an angle that a significant number of the life-boats couldn't be launched.

ooh
well lets just not go on a cruise then.
anyone for a trip to the seaside?