I suspect it’s an illustration of the crude, reductive simplifications that feminism has encouraged that an entire gender of humanity should need to be defended in such tear-jerking terms. We all get a lump in our throats to think what a great guy was the pilot who safely crash-landed his plane on the Hudson or the firefighters who raced into the World Trade Center on 9/11. But isn’t it as unconvincing to think of all men in that light as it would be to suppose that the conduct of the captain of the Costa Concordia reflected the rat-like cowardice of all men? Don’t we all know in our bones that any one of us might have acted either way, depending on the moment?