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
There is a bias in the data when all the people are post-conviction, the correction officer is racist for being surprised it happens to a black person when a prisonner being innocent is just rare in general.
But for the nurse to be sexist, it's that when she is surprised that a male partner is supportive, she should actually be surprised when any gender partner is supportive. For that to be true, the idea that all gender partners accompanying mothers to give birth generally suck, not just men, has to be true.
We don't know that, unless there was research, and we shouldn't conclude it too quickly.
The circumstances for same sex couples are different enough that the statistics of this type of thing could differ rather significantly. For one, it isn't possible for cis same sex couples to have a baby by accident, and they are the majority since trans people are rare. That influences a lot. E.g., scenarii where the mother becomes trapped with a bad partner due to a surprise baby don't really occur. It is also a rather long process to have a baby for same sex cis couples, and a lack of involvement of the partner would be noticed earlier.
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u/Dr-Assbeard Apr 24 '26
Chris here, the joke is sexism, she doesn't expect a man to be present and supportive durig childbirth