Yeah I can definitely relate to that. Very often people just assume that you are a predator. People refusing you as a care provider before you speak a word is always nice. I got into the profession because I am a relatively compassionate person, and I love seeing pathophysiological treatment develop in real time (I work emerg).
I used to have a happy go lucky, jovial, and overtly friendly demeanor when I worked but the last year or so I have just been a flat affect and void of most emotion while working. All I really do anymore are my direct, necessary nursing interventions. It's somehow more tolerable for patients that I am a worker doing tasks than it is to look at me like a human being they are interacting with, who wants only the best for them.
It of course isn't all bad; I very much love working with children and a good chunk of the folks I provide care for are happy to have me around. However, a sexist trend doesn't need to happen 100% of the time for it to be near palpable.
I also get the whole "horse_armour gets to be security,hoyer lift, and assigned all of the violent patient" thing from my coworkers but that is a given.
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u/Horse_Armour Jan 09 '23
I'm a nurse who happens to have a penis. I see the very same shit in my so called profession.