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<blockquote data-quote="anndra w" data-source="post: 443555" data-attributes="member: 57092">I don’t think we can get ourselves into a situation where patients feeling uncomfortable is taken into consideration when being treated by a female nurse. We could end up with straight women saying they don’t want lesbian nurses examining them or members of the racist community objecting to non white doctors or nurses. I think society would be in a much better place if folk started to think that their feelings are not the be all and end all - if they’re uncomfortable tough - they’re being looked after and that’s what’s important - their welfare and their health.Given how boys are often raised being taught that empathy is a weakness I think there are reasons - that we should tackle - for why some men might be very unsuited to caring roles.I don’t mind professions having more of one gender or the other - I do object to barriers but in primary teaching, being male is an advantage because there is such a shortage of male primary teachers - if women want to be primary teachers and men don’t that’s fine - but there’s certainly no barrier or inequality of opportunity involved in that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="anndra w, post: 443555, member: 57092"] I don’t think we can get ourselves into a situation where patients feeling uncomfortable is taken into consideration when being treated by a female nurse. We could end up with straight women saying they don’t want lesbian nurses examining them or members of the racist community objecting to non white doctors or nurses. I think society would be in a much better place if folk started to think that their feelings are not the be all and end all - if they’re uncomfortable tough - they’re being looked after and that’s what’s important - their welfare and their health. Given how boys are often raised being taught that empathy is a weakness I think there are reasons - that we should tackle - for why some men might be very unsuited to caring roles. I don’t mind professions having more of one gender or the other - I do object to barriers but in primary teaching, being male is an advantage because there is such a shortage of male primary teachers - if women want to be primary teachers and men don’t that’s fine - but there’s certainly no barrier or inequality of opportunity involved in that. [/QUOTE]

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