[cyborg]

I think the truth is somewhere in between. Old British society was extremely classist but people aren't the same in the midst of a tragedy.

[Gunrunner2]

>>I think the truth is somewhere in between. Old British society was extremely classist but people aren't the same in the midst of a tragedy.<<

Yes. . .but being a person of high class the British man would not enter the boats and instead, adhere to the women and children edict. To scurry on-board would have been viewed as a boorish act, the actions of a coward, worthy of scorn.

No doubt some wouldn't mind that shame, but more than many did mind and acted as gentlemen should. . .they acted with class.

[Gunrunner2]

Not arguing, just making a comment.