YM March issue - could your wife etc?

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This month's issue of YM has on it's front page the words "COULD YOUR WIFE SAVE YOUR LIFE?" and then has a feature about life saving equipment of various sorts. Apart from the fact that Mrs Zefender saw it and rephrased it as "Would your wife want to save your life", it struck me as an oddly 1950s sort of headline. I do maybe tend towards Norf Londonish political correctness, a bit, but the headline has all sorts of rather daft associations

1, Are all skippers/readers male?
2, Are all skippers/readers married?
3, Are women as a rule less physically able to haul someone in than a male?
4, Does 'the wife' sail with skippers?
5, Are daughters or other females not included in the focus of the feature?
6, Can a wife be a skipper?

I can see copies being burned in the streets of Islington, amongst other places maybe.

Don't really think this does much to fight against the perception of sailors as rather fuddyduddy old gits.
 
I have to say, I thought the same thing. In reality, though, it refers to someone of slight build having to rescue someone of a heavy displacement, which is a very valid point. In journalistic terms, the headline certainly got us looking and perhaps thinking about a very serious matter, whatever the cognoscente of North London feel about it! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
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I have to say, I thought the same thing. In reality, though, it refers to someone of slight build having to rescue someone of a heavy displacement

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Oh, so women are all fragile, little things and all men are fat gits - I get it now :-)
 
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In reality, though, it refers to someone of slight build having to rescue someone of a heavy displacement, which is a very valid point.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, that could so easily be reversed roles. There are a few yachting couples (I must be very careful here) who I have seen where the wife overboard scenario would be a problem for wiry little hubby. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

( not in the Lakesailoring household, I must point out)
 
SWMBO and I had a chuckle about the non PC headline, but the truth of the matter is, it struck a very real chord with us. In our case, she had been her father's crew twenty years ago and apparently the tow of them never discussed what would happen if he went for an unplanned dip in the Humber.

The sunday before last was the first time we had been out as just the two of us and I scared the life out of her by making sure we/she had a thorough plan of what was going to happen if I went over the side.
 
We joked when we saw it along the same lines as your wife did, i.e. 'would your wife want to save your life'. Otherwise no problem, but as a, err, 'wifey' I will read it and consider it on content, but maybe that says something about why we moved out of North London /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Could your shag make a sail bag?

hm...

Some time back at work, a salesman askd if I wd go along to a meeting, make up numbers presentation summink meet the bosses that sort of thing. I asked him -what's their md was like? - youngish perhaps or a bit of an old git? No no, not old git- he's fiftytwoish, fiftythree said the salesman. Laughter in office ...haha 53 is a bit old gittish!

Oh of course not to people who are 53 or above or to anyone even approaching 53 in less than a decade say. But to many people who have no kids, or who have kids that wear nappies ... 53 is unfortunately oldish gittish.
 
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Yes, that could so easily be reversed roles. There are a few yachting couples (I must be very careful here) who I have seen where the wife overboard scenario would be a problem for wiry little hubby.

( not in the Lakesailoring household, I must point out)

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So, would they bother ?
 
Surely that is a reasonable, and very serious, question.

I'm sure there are a number of people who regularly sail with their wives where the wife would have problems recovering the husband if he fell in - I am one of them.

Seems to be mad to try to stifle an important safety issue on the basis of Political Correctness
 
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Oh of course not to people who are 53 or above or to anyone even approaching 53 in less than a decade say. But to many people who have no kids, or who have kids that wear nappies ... 53 is unfortunately oldish gittish.


[/ QUOTE ] As someone who is 53 with no children and not married but hopes to meet the right lady who would not only want to have my (our?) children but also haul me back aboard, I think I know what you mean ! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
My sentiments exactly /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
But, I'm sure it's all to do with movable ballast or something...
 
Would the article have been any less interesting or relevant to you if the headline were "Could your crew save your life?" I often sail with my brother (known hearabouts as Paddywackcocker). He's erm a tad heavier than me. I might struggle trying to save his life I suppose. But we're not married to each other, you understand. Clearly the article wasn't intended for me then.

I look forward to next month and the headline "Can your husband prevent starvation" and a wonderfully detailed feature explaining how to boil an egg, use tin opener etc etc.
 
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