December 16, 2005
Hostile Work Environment
According to CNN, nurses regularly experience sexual harassment on the job. I've heard about such harassment from a few of my own nurses. My group of nurses is a little unusual because about half of them are male, but generally nursing continues to be a female-dominated profession. And our culture loves to fetishize women who work as caregivers. I'm certainly not an expert on these things, but is there a profession more overrepresented in porn than nurses? Well, maybe pizza delivery guys, but they're probably a distant second. I think the urge to assert some kind of sexual dominance over a female caregiver is a defense mechanism in some men who feel vulnerable because of an illness or injury. Or maybe a lot of guys are just dicks.
As for me, I like to think I treat my nurses with respect and decency. My male nurses are required to wear leather chaps and my female nurses are required to wear leather miniskirts only on Saturday nights. But that's not really a sexual thing. Saturdays are my clubbing nights and I just want them to blend in.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at December 16, 2005 08:03 PM
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I'm not sure if this is relavent, I have male and female caregivers come to my home, three times a day, everyday. I have had the trouble of people thinking that I am sexually involved with the male attendants. Ick. Not only am I in a wheelchair, apparently I am also a whore. When I have to pee, I do not give a damn about the caregiver's gender. (American) people tend to sexualize everything.
Posted by: janice at December 17, 2005 11:07 AM
I THOUGHT that was you at Ground Zero for Bondage a go-go! j/k Holla.
Posted by: jess at December 19, 2005 12:26 PM
I suspect that teachers, especially private school teachers, come around as often as nurses in porn. Plus, uniformed schoolgirls no doubt have a very large following.
And how often do nurses harass those they care for? I think I've vicariously seen enough male ass to last a lifetime.
Posted by: Charles at December 20, 2005 02:28 AM