themarxistmind explains it quite eloquently.

The two next pages will be kind of fun. :3

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I came across an interesting article at Transport International Magazine about prejudice against women seafarers: Waves of resistance …

The captains in Deadliest Catch once discussed women on fishing boats, and the main reason they cited for why it isn’t very popular is that the wives of the fishermen would be very uncomfortable about having their husbands living so closely with some other woman. :o/ (Yeah yeah, it’s always some woman’s fault …)

They mentioned a crab fishing boat that once operated with an all-women crew. Also, there have been two boats on the show where the wife of the captain came along as a cook, and one where the daughter of the captain worked as a deckhand and seemed to kick ass in general.

And here’s another article from Transport International Magazine, about Ann Jorunn Olsen, who works on a Norwegian fishing trawler and thinks international trade union solidarity is very important. <3 ;_;