Proximity (2020)
blueskies223 1 points 4 years ago.

That as a female doctor who is mistaken for a nurse at least five times a day every day and whose medical and scientific opinions are regularly discredited owing to me being female I’m really tired of how people assume that brilliant doctors and scientists are male and not female, and shows like this only help perpetuate that mindset?

Canuckian 3 points 4 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

well, tbh i haven’t seen this show, i only saw your comment and assumed you were a Feminist pissed off that someone dared to make a male something better than a worm in the ground (which is the opinion most feminists have of the male species)…i can only speak for myself but i have never assumed any such thing, nor does anyone i know think that way (as far as i know) and if they did, i would have the same discussion with them. In 2020, opportunities are there for the taking. If you want it, and you have the grit, determination and intelligence to go for it, than you can have it..such as being a brilliant Doctor whether your male OR female. I don’t understand how someone can mistake a doctor for a nurse seeing that they wear very different clothes/uniforms so that right there shows that whoever mistakes such a thing is obviously not very smart/observant so i would take no offense as the words of an “ignoramus” and i would take GREAT pleasure in correcting them. Anyways, all im saying is people are gonna think what they wanna think and no TV show is going to change that. My response to your earlier comment was based on me thinking you were one of those All-Male hating Feminazis pissed off whenever a man is shown capable of being more than just whatever their opinions are of them if you know what i mean. If you are a Doctor like you claim to be, then you have earned the title of MD and rightfully so and the opinions of smaller minded people should mean little to you. Dr. Jane C. Wright, pioneer in Chemotherapy and a black woman..brilliant. Dr. Gertrude B. Elion, basically a Rockstar in MEdical Science as she bascially saved millions of children from a death sentence from Leukemia, she also created drugs which mitigated the effects of malaria, kidney stones, arthritis and gout among others…definitely brilliant…i have many lists in front of me as this thread got me curious so i did some looking and female doctors/scientists are just as responsible as an male doctor for many of the drugs/cures we have today. Anyone who assumes that only men make good doctors/scientists are not worth listening too thus anything they say can be taken with a grain of salt. I am no Doctor yet even i know that. Small minded people have narrow opinions to fit into their narrow world, therefor anything they say wouldn’t bother me. What DOES bother me though is when someone chops down the entire apple tree because of one bad apple and they just assume that they ALL must be bad or the same. That is what led me to reply to your comment, i just wanted to know what your reasoning was behind your comment. Cheers Doc.