More like it's uncommon to see in her work . If it were a random saying it then I'd say it's sexism but it's a whole medical practitioner who has probably seen countless births so if she is surprised it's because it isn't something they see all the time not because she's taking a jab at men or whatever.
I don't think it can just be labeled as sexism though because they haven't given a reason or trait that makes men not be there for their partners. Some are in the room but keep their distance, some are right next to their partner, some don't even make it into the room .
“I, a corrections officer for a region in which there is a statistically anomalously high black population, express surprise when it turns out that the black inmate turned out to be innocent all along, because usually I don’t happen to see that happen, given the fact that all my prisoners are post-conviction, and am phrasing this as ‘when your black inmate ends up released because it turns out the prosecution messed up and they were innocent all along’ with an image of my face very surprised but don’t worry it’s not racist because I legitimately see a lot of bad black people”
Edit: also, pointedly, other commenters are saying that in the original video it was actually s response to the man getting slapped for saying this, and not about the man saying this, so the actual original person wasn’t being sexist but the person taking the screenshot was just some rando
I have given reasoning in multiple comments, but I’ll do it again. This situation is so far removed from the situation being discussed that it is comical.
1. An L&D worker who comments that men in her clinic are frequently not supportive of their partners is reporting on something she sees with her eyes. A prison guard who assumes that all of the incarcerated Black people in his prison are guilty is making an assumption. This part of OP’s comment, the idea that a corrections officer only sees prisoners post-conviction, so he is somehow at once a) totally justified in thinking they’re all guilty but also b) perpetuating a harmful stereotype by being surprised that one is innocent, is so incoherent that it feels like OP wanted to just make a general case about a corrections officer who interacts with Black criminals and therefore is racist toward Black people, but they realized they can’t do that because the case being discussed is about an observation at work, not actually a matter of straight-forward sexism against men.
2. Fathers in an L&D ward are a relatively random sample of new fathers. Incarcerated Black men are not a random sample of Black people. It is more reasonable to draw an assumption from the former than the latter.
3. An L&D worker saying that she has observed men being unsupportive of their partners does nowhere the near the harm to men in general than is done to Black men by racist corrections officers, and men being ribbed on TikTok is nowhere near the same situation as the over-incarceration and prison abuse of Black men. It is offensive to discuss these like they’re the same.
Overall, you can’t respond to every case of a person saying something about a group with, “But what if a prison guard hated Black people? Isn’t that kind of exactly the same thing?”
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u/hopelesslysad7256 Apr 24 '26
More like it's uncommon to see in her work . If it were a random saying it then I'd say it's sexism but it's a whole medical practitioner who has probably seen countless births so if she is surprised it's because it isn't something they see all the time not because she's taking a jab at men or whatever.
I don't think it can just be labeled as sexism though because they haven't given a reason or trait that makes men not be there for their partners. Some are in the room but keep their distance, some are right next to their partner, some don't even make it into the room .