Reply To: Ladies First – Is it respectful or not?

apushatayid: “Tznius isn’t mentioned in the SA as a criterion to evaluate if faced with a choice who to save, why are you makingvanbissuecthe SA does not.”

Joe was presenting me with a hypothetical situation in which I have a decision to make. If I knew of any halachos that tell me who to save, I would go by that obviously. Since I don’t know of any, I have to make my own decision. I have to choose to either save the men or the women. As a girl, I would be more comfortable saving the women. What issue do you have with that? Since I have to make a choice between the men and the women (as the case was presented to me), why shouldn’t I choose the women for tznius reasons?