Re: how many guys hear this? Originally Posted by Roy Fokker The stupidest thing, IMHO, is how people go for the whole "gay" thing.
Naturally people "assume" that all those 'female nurses' are heterosexual.
I mean really (though I'm not gay) even if I was.... so what? - How does that change things even on iota?
It doesn't. But naturally little details like that never seem to make it to their silly heads...
It's because plenty of men are extremely paranoid of being labeled as gay, especially if insecurities about that subject already exist for them.
Men like that probably shouldn't enter nursing, because it will only feed on their already large insecurity and fear of it, but for some reason, some of them still do enter nursing and that's when you get someone who constantly has to advertise to everyone how straight and manly they are.
I'm never sure whether they are trying to convince their co-workers, the public, or themselves.
We might not like it, but the stereotype is still out there, even if mostly in more conservative and rural/small town circles.
And some guys just have a more difficult time dealing with it.
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