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gns_uaНе прошло недели после гибели Титаника, как британские феминистки начали протестовать против возмутительного обхождения с женщинами на тонущем лайнере. Патриархальные самцы выбрали легкую, быструю смерть, оставив безутешных вдов и сирот в ненадежных шлюпках; мало того, они их лишили права выбора своей собственной участи, и т. п. и т. д.
...Lady Aberconway made it clear that, if ‘women first’ was observed, it was out of date: ‘In great disasters nowadays on the high seas … there is often no such great difference in the chances of rescue as between men and women. … Noble as was [the devotion of the men of the Titanic], it is in my opinion a sacrifice which ought not be demanded of the male sex, nor accepted by the female. … An equal chance of life is all that women in danger should ask or take from men.’ It was important to some Edwardian women that women (and men) be given choices rather than traditions of chivalry: ‘this traditional custom [saving women first] is now carried out without the direct consent of the individual men who are thereby doomed to die, or of any wish expressed by women, who no doubt are almost equally deprived of choice... In loss at sea we claim our right to die for those we love, or share their doom.’
...A correspondent of The Freewoman, a radical feminist weekly, argued that ‘”Women and children first” was a fine sentiment, the right sentiment, for times when women were helpless, loving, dutiful chattels; their weakness claimed consideration. … Now that men and women are comrades and co-workers, … it seems to me, not a right one.’ She went on, ‘Women who claim sex-equality … cannot consent to this formula of “women first”… Women must have a chivalry of their own. Let us say, “The children first.” To this end, she argued that fathers should precede childless women. The Freewoman editor, Dora Marsden, joined the call for a ‘new chivalry’, one that women could practice.
...Marsden called for women to practice chivalry, allowing them to ‘love as grandly, to live as fearlessly, to die as greatly as men…,’ repudiating men’s ‘second-rate gifts’ of material precedence. ‘The rule of the sea is a great soul-opportunity’, from which ‘the element of sex should be eliminated.’ Until the memory of feminine precedence had faded, she proposed that men and women be separated in shipwrecks, and each allowed to act chivalrously towards their weaker brethren.
http://arbat.livejournal.com/597747.html?thread=29960947#t29960947
...Lady Aberconway made it clear that, if ‘women first’ was observed, it was out of date: ‘In great disasters nowadays on the high seas … there is often no such great difference in the chances of rescue as between men and women. … Noble as was [the devotion of the men of the Titanic], it is in my opinion a sacrifice which ought not be demanded of the male sex, nor accepted by the female. … An equal chance of life is all that women in danger should ask or take from men.’ It was important to some Edwardian women that women (and men) be given choices rather than traditions of chivalry: ‘this traditional custom [saving women first] is now carried out without the direct consent of the individual men who are thereby doomed to die, or of any wish expressed by women, who no doubt are almost equally deprived of choice... In loss at sea we claim our right to die for those we love, or share their doom.’
...A correspondent of The Freewoman, a radical feminist weekly, argued that ‘”Women and children first” was a fine sentiment, the right sentiment, for times when women were helpless, loving, dutiful chattels; their weakness claimed consideration. … Now that men and women are comrades and co-workers, … it seems to me, not a right one.’ She went on, ‘Women who claim sex-equality … cannot consent to this formula of “women first”… Women must have a chivalry of their own. Let us say, “The children first.” To this end, she argued that fathers should precede childless women. The Freewoman editor, Dora Marsden, joined the call for a ‘new chivalry’, one that women could practice.
...Marsden called for women to practice chivalry, allowing them to ‘love as grandly, to live as fearlessly, to die as greatly as men…,’ repudiating men’s ‘second-rate gifts’ of material precedence. ‘The rule of the sea is a great soul-opportunity’, from which ‘the element of sex should be eliminated.’ Until the memory of feminine precedence had faded, she proposed that men and women be separated in shipwrecks, and each allowed to act chivalrously towards their weaker brethren.
http://arbat.livejournal.com/597747.html?thread=29960947#t29960947
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