Anybody else catch this?... Glee Male nurse

[wsuRN09]

So I don't like to admit it, but I watched Glee.... however, I was slightly offended by the stab the season premier made at male nurses... and I quote "female football coach, like male nurses, are a sin against nature." It's also not cool that females coaching football is a sin according to the writers of Glee. I am officially irritated for the day and I could not bring myself to watch the rest of the episode... and probably the rest of the season as well.

[MrsEd]

I think you have to take it in context - anything out of the mouth of Sue Sylvester is going to be offensive - she does not discriminate - EVERYONE is fair game. I'm a total GLEEK!!

[whodatnurse]

I caught it. Along with her knowingly having a teenage student purposefully make a false accusation against a female coach that she had touched the student's breasts.

That's the thing about the Sue Sylvester character and the rest of the show...as others have already pointed out...if these were lighthearted attempts at humor...they would not be funny at all. But because they are SO SO outrageously over the top...the humor is NOT in the jokes they're making but the parodies of the characters they're portraying.

[whodatnurse]

I think you have to take it in context - anything out of the mouth of Sue Sylvester is going to be offensive - she does not discriminate - EVERYONE is fair game. I'm a total GLEEK!!

I TOO am a total Gleek!

:up::up::up:

:):):):):):)

[betakurt]

Stop the presses. It's a comedy show. They told a joke.

[TiffyRN, BSN, PhD]

Reminds me of all the folks that were so offended at things said by Dr. House; who is rude and condescending to all, not excepting nurses.

I need to order Glee off Netflix and get caught up, I hear great things about the show.

[ktwlpn, LPN]

Good catch!! What you should do is write to the tv network, the producers AND most importantly the sponsors and let them know how offensive this is and that you 've posted this on this nursing site.

O for goodness sake! Being "PC" has gotten WAY out of hand. At any given moment there was something to offend everyone in the episode. There are no accidental exposures to TV-don't watch it if you don't like it. Censorship will cripple creativity in this country. I want the right to watch whatever I want to watch.

[TickyRN]

Seriously OP, have you met Sue Slyvester? Did you even watch the commercial she was in? did that offend you too.

I watch Glee once in a while and I dont take it too seriously.

you shouldnt either.

[totally_nuts]

It's a comedy tv show - get over it!

Anybody who takes what they say on Glee seriously needs to step back and take the show for what it is - a joke.

[Flying ICU RN]

The funniest stereotypical male nurse I've ever seen in media, was the Ben Stiller character in the film Meet the Parents (2000). There are several stereotypical references made in the film.

I have to go "Milk the Cat" now.

[TDCHIM]

I'm going to show my age for a moment - this flap rather makes me think of some of the fuss over the show "Soap" back in the day, because many of the portrayals of characters and issues were quite over the top (enough so that they were meant to make you think after you laughed).

Can't say I've seen "Glee" (I'm usually studying at night and I'm not a big network TV fan anymore), but from the descriptions of those who've seen it, the scene the OP described sounds as though it was meant to be taken with about half a shaker of salt. Hmmm, maybe I'll have to give the show a look sometime.

[silentRN]

They just insulted half of my ICU unit then, since just about half of the unit are male nurses

[pghfoxfan]

Glee is a great show! It's a comedy...treat it as such. (my husband is a "sin against nature"