New male student in clinicals, all women, feeling isolated

[Matucm]

So sometimes im feeling isolated all around women, I am a new male nursing student and Im feeling a little bit isolated in clinicals, most of the time in the break time that they speak about their things and there is nothing to do.

any advice? how to behave when im feeling unintegrated?

[SmilingBluEyes]

Echoes of my time in the military, working in an engine shop with about 99.95% men for whom shop talk was ANYTHING but delicate and certainly did not take my "sensibilities" into consideration.....so, fresh outa pity here.

Show interest in their talk, interest in who they are and work a bit to fit in. If that fails in your future endeavors in the female-dominated nursing world---welp, move on. But don't expect to find it all that different everywhere. Men fit in when they choose to.

[Dranger]

Flirt and hook up. That's what I did, worked out fine. Don't take school that seriously, just play the game and graduate. Most of the content and social interactions aren't even relevant.

[SmilingBluEyes]

"Flirt and hook up?" ARE YOU KIDDING? Ummmm, women don't usually WANT to be hit on and "hook up" with classmates and professional coworkers, and this assumption is as sexist as hell. Keep that harassment and annoyance out of the classroom and the profession.

Better change your thinking before you become a nurse, if you do.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Man bites dog. Golly.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to belittle your feelings. But you know what, after years of life as a woman and now as an older one, I have had sooooo many opportunities to be invisible and devalued in groups of men that my sympathy for this turn-about is allllll dried up. You wanna be invisible, walk into a tech store ready to spend a lot of money as an older woman, as I did last weekend. If I hadn't been in a hurry I'd have waited longer, as a data collecting opportunity, to see how just how long it would take one of the customer service types to say, "Can I help you?" and how many men who arrived after me got helped first. I can tell you it was 1) too damn long and 2) at least three.

Try starting a conversation about that, why doncha.

I have to admit, I had the same feelings when I read the original post. Try being the only female lawyer in the group, doing just as much work as everyone else with a salary of about 75% of what they make. To the OP: Suck it up and deal. Learn to make conversation with PEOPLE. Women are people, too.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Line up the threads and read them one after the other. Come away with a feeling of "special snowflake".

Perhaps the problem is that the OP is from a culture that does not recognize women as people?