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
Why though? Roughly half of all black people are men, and I’m not sure that black men care which of their demographics someone cites to tell them about their statistical likelihood of being a deadbeat husband/parent. That’s intersectionality for you
But ultimately, my point is not that black people are like this or deserve this or anything else, I just find that there are a lot of biases that are very normalized in society for this or that reason, to the point we don’t really take them seriously, but that by swapping out who the bias is directed at then the normalization falls away and we see what’s wrong much more clearly
I’m also not saying all this to say “men are oppressed” or something. There are definitely ways in which society roughs men up, like how showing vulnerability is often overly stigmatized or somesuch, but that doesn’t mean men are oppressed
I’m just saying that the joke really is sexism. Like, if other comments are to be believed, the nurse wasn’t actually expressing surprise at a man being supportive, but at something else in the video, so the original joke wasn’t sexism, but whoever took the screenshot to make it look like sexism out of context was- like, their joke was sexism
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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 .