Required to wear all white and carry a flower during pinning cermony

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I just had my graduation....I felt girly because the students chose to wear all white and we had to carry a girly flower...I mean, if males dont speak up about this, it would seem that it is a female profession..Just to note, the females did plan this pinning ceremony and I know for a fact, that it had a feminine tone to it..It was suited for females and not unisexed! Now that is not fair at all!

Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.
HOWEVER; let's say that at an M.D. graduation, the males and females

were required to wear a suit and a tie, "Because M.D. IS FOR MEN ONLY!"

Women's Rights activist would be all over it as well as the media.

Isn't that the truth!

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My father was a manly man...tough as nails.

His favorite gift was beautiful flowers.

Real men don't have to prove it...they just are.

Sure we don't have to prove it, but we also don't need to conform to old traditions that make us feel feminine. I don't have to prove I'm a man, but I don't want to make a case against myself that I'm like a woman. I love flowers also (Lilacs - beautiful and smell wonderful) but I wouldn't want to carry them at my graduation.

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Specializes in Trauma Administration/Level I Trauma.

Know the feeling all to well bro, did the same here(minus the flowers :uhoh21: ). Just have to suck it up I'm afraid. :)

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Yuck...Flowers

I would have worn black tube socks and black boxers/thong.

Maybe walk across the stage slow with my eyes on the floor slouching, stop, big sigh look at flowers shake head and repeat.

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I graduated last night! None of my classmates wanted to carry flowers, but I insisted on a brandishing a bouquet of calla lily and reciting "Oh Captain, My Captain" when my name was announced.

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I had to wear whites during clinicals.... B.S.N program. What a joke! Nurses constantly scream for respect, but then force this crap on their young. How blue collar is that???

As for whites at graduation and flowers.... I wouldn't have showed up... But cheers to those of you who did..... I guess that's better than what most women would get when they join a police department, or god forbid a fire department... I once saw an entire six foot tall locker stuffed with Media at one of the fire departments I worked for.....

Flowers and white..... Might not be that bad....

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Yuck...Flowers

I would have worn black tube socks and black boxers/thong.

Maybe walk across the stage slow with my eyes on the floor slouching, stop, big sigh look at flowers shake head and repeat.

When I graduate, if they make me carry a flower, I'm going to stop halfway across the stage and slowly eat it, with a meditative look on my face.

Always leave them confused, I say.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Cardiac.

Next June when it comes time for our graduation I'm just going to keep my mouth shut and quietly ask the lady in the office to mail me my diploma or whatever they give you. I guess all that really matters is that the paperwork for the NCLEX and temporary license gets filled out correctly.

Our school loves to make new rules, so I figure if anybody makes a stink, they'll just change the rules to make attendance at the graduation ceremony mandatory.

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Specializes in CTICU.

I'm all for the white dress and flowers, that will just show off my bright and bubbly personality.

I'm sure the white dress will show off my 6'1" 240lbs frame just wonderfully. Hairy legs and all!!

And if all goes well I'll light myself on fire with my candle as I go across the stage.

OMG! The thought of this just makes me want to laugh to death at the stupidity/thoughtlessness, and then puke that someone put themselves through this! Skip the stupid ceremony. I just graduated with my BSN, skipped the whole stupid thing. :selfbonk:

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
Well ... I'm female, and object to this stuff also. I DO NOT want to wear a white dress, cap, etc. to my ceremony. To me, it's absurd since they're making us pay for the graduation ... we should be able to wear whatever we want.

I seriously thinking of not going because I feel so strongly about it. I hate wearing white, and I hate wearing dresses. And I especially hate being told what to wear when I'm paying for the ceremony.

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Its a ceremony for graduation. It wont kill you. It wont hurt you

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Specializes in ICU;CCU;Telemetry;L&D;Hospice;ER/Trauma;.

yeah, i see this happen all over the country. like when the unit specific scrub colors get picked....and they go with lavender and pink....what the heck are the guys supposed to wear??? it's so lame...pathetic....and demeaning....at least the morons didn't make you wear high heels...ugh.

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HOWEVER; let's say that at an M.D. graduation, the males and females

were required to wear a suit and a tie, "Because M.D. IS FOR MEN ONLY!"

Women's Rights activist would be all over it as well as the media./quote]

This would never happen because Med Schools realize that this is a gradaution ceremony from a professional program not a sorority function. I think we should ditch the pinning stuff anyway. I'll be going to my graduation because my wife has insisted, but I wish that it was just a graduation ceremony. I don't know, maybe we'll have a general graduation and a separate pinning and I can choose the more professional one...

I just think that stuff like this continues to make nursing less of a respected profession and more like the girl scouts or the sorority. To me, skip the candles, flowers, pins etc. Cap and gown, lame speeches and diplomas just like every other program. :-) Reciting a pledge is ok with me (I don't know much about Florence Nightengale and her pledge, but the concept doesn't bother me.)

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