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

Joseph: “Redleg: The Torah and Halacha disagree with you. The Shulchan Aruch says the opposite of you.”

But Joseph, he is talking about goyim, so the reasons why men go first don’t apply. In terms of Pharoah, he’s talking about Yidden, but it’s not the same situation. The fact that when you have to choose between saving a man and saving a woman, you save the man (lol, I started to write woman – Freudian slip :)) first does not necessarily mean that if someone is trying to destroy Am Yisrael chas v’shalom, it would make more sense to destroy the boys. They are two different things and the reasoning in each case would be different.