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The Tragedy Of The Titanic

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Because of a little known film, many people assume that they know the harrowing stories of the tragic tale of the Titanic. But quite often, those harrowing stories of survival and demise are told from a man’s perspective. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that only “19%” of the male passengers and crew survived the shipwreck while “75%” of the female passengers and crew lived, or maybe it is because the coverage of the tragedy and inquiries into the global disaster were mainly presented from the male perspective (Henderson). Whatever the reason, primary sources regarding female passengers are seemingly harder to come across compared to male-centric news stories, inquiry testimonies, and journals. Even after finding a select number of primary sources featuring women, the number of those related to first-class women compared to third-class women is alarmingly insufficient. Why is it that an already misrepresented class must be subjected to class exclusion? Sexism and classism for the women aboard the Titanic continued long after the ship established its watery grave. Fight or flight is a dilemma that nearly every passenger aboard the Titanic must have contemplated once they learned the fate of the magnificent ocean liner. While it is easy to assume that women had the upper hand in surviving the catastrophe, it certainly was not a walk through the First Class Lounge. Shortly after the Titanic struck the iceberg, a telegram was sent to the Olympic relaying that member of the

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