My problem isn't with the work male nurses do, it's with the title: "Male Nurses!" The word just doesn't fit in any color other than pink, and certainly not next to "Male." Nurse is just too soft a word, this is what one definition should say in a Webster's: nurse [nurs] - verb; to caress a supple breast very gently and passionately. Example sentence: "Oh My God, did he like, just nurse me?"
Doesn't that fit better. Yeah it does. And it really works next to male. People would have no problem finding male nurses to lift patients, and handle violent ones if that was the meaning. Right now nurse really just means, PUSS! That's what it means, and it's unfortunate. I don't think of nurse in the light that is just the connotation it presently carries...
What should they be called? Male Monitores. That's right Monitores. The [MON-A-TORES!] Make sure you say it with a really deep-voice too...
See that! I can write in a masculine color, not like male nurse. All the male "nurses" though, keep doin' what y'all do. We are working on a term for you, Real Talk.
In the meantime I'll be busy nursin' how I like to nurse*..
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i think that if you change the name of "male nurse" you need to change "nurse" to something gender neutral as well, and just have one unisex term for the occupation that society hasn't already attached gender identities to, like the word "nurse".
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ReplyDeletehaha... ok Ash!
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