I love the subtle implication that it’s unusual for men to be doctors. It’s almost a “Skinwalker Phrasing”, where you know what they mean, but it sounds off. It sounds like it’s fine on first read, but that’s because you’re associating “Male Doctor” with the phrase “Male Nurse” which makes more sense as while doctor is seen a gender neutral profession, being a nurse while not strictly forbidding men, is along with secretary, nanny, teacher, and stewardess, seen as “Women’s Work” in the patriarchal social structure which most cultures live in. Despite the fact that men do fill those roles all the time.
Well maybe not Nanny sadly, as society with its “Women are victims, Men are predators” mindset eyes any man who volunteers himself in the care of children with suspicion. Something that I, as a transwoman who was falsely accused as a guy, am well aware of.
…I legitimately forgot what the fuck I was talking about when I started babbling about gender roles.
On that note, thankfully I can’t think of any job (outside of US President apparently, seriously Trump is preferrable to any woman? That’s really the precedent we’ve set? What the shit America) that is typically seen as male exclusive. Something I definitely couldn’t say as recently as 20 years ago.
I love the subtle implication that it’s unusual for men to be doctors. It’s almost a “Skinwalker Phrasing”, where you know what they mean, but it sounds off. It sounds like it’s fine on first read, but that’s because you’re associating “Male Doctor” with the phrase “Male Nurse” which makes more sense as while doctor is seen a gender neutral profession, being a nurse while not strictly forbidding men, is along with secretary, nanny, teacher, and stewardess, seen as “Women’s Work” in the patriarchal social structure which most cultures live in. Despite the fact that men do fill those roles all the time.
Well maybe not Nanny sadly, as society with its “Women are victims, Men are predators” mindset eyes any man who volunteers himself in the care of children with suspicion. Something that I, as a transwoman who was falsely accused as a guy, am well aware of.
…I legitimately forgot what the fuck I was talking about when I started babbling about gender roles.
On that note, thankfully I can’t think of any job (outside of US President apparently, seriously Trump is preferrable to any woman? That’s really the precedent we’ve set? What the shit America) that is typically seen as male exclusive. Something I definitely couldn’t say as recently as 20 years ago.