Women And Children First!
<p>Itis universally understood when a boat sinks, the Captain issues the <em>‘Women and Children First’</em> command, and the lifeboats are duly lowered in a calm stoic manner by grim-faced crew. The misty-eyed women are loaded into the boats, brush half-formed tears from their wide eyes and watch as their husbands adjust dinner suits, tidy up pocket squares and go down with the ship.</p>
<p>Wallace Hartley plays Mambo Number Five on the viola</p>
<p>You see, all of that is true. Apart from the bit about Wallace Hartley playing Mambo Number Five on the viola. Every half-decent Titanophile knows Hartley was a violin player.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.titanic-titanic.com/titanics-valiant-musicians-wallace-hartley-and-the-titanic-ships-orchestra/#google_vignette" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">John Clarke played the viola.</a></p>
<p>But this week I was pointed towards a scientific paper shared by </p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/u/152b7cad7f04?source=post_page-----30670af1950--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Elle Beau ❇︎</a></p>
<p> in one of her usual<a href="https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/men-arent-more-expendable-than-women-297909eafa3c" rel="noopener"> stellar pieces about the patriarchy.</a> It was a brief aside within her piece, an off-the-cuff throwaway proof maritime disasters do not generally unfold the way the Titanic did.</p>
<p>I was so taken aback that I nearly dropped my krill.</p>
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