my professor spent our entire seminar whining about how thereâs too many girls in our group and not enough boys. he was like âiâm not saying women canât be good surgeons but we need more menâ no, we donât. men suck. deal with it.
CRY ALL YOU FUCKING WANT YOUR TEARS DONâT MEAN SHIT TO ME. YOUR TEARS MEAN DICK TO ME JUST SO YOU KNOW
Okay so not to be that person who adds on to a post with their own story but my mom is a doctor and when I was eleven she took me to these all-female seminar led by a woman who was the head of a hospital because my mom is an empowered and independent woman who wanted her daughter to be the same way and so thereâs like thirty females surgeons in the room, all sitting around his huge circlular confrenece table and talking about their experiences in becoming surgeons
most of them were like âeveryone told me I should become a nurse or a pediatricianâ and âpeople assume that I donât know what Iâm doingâ you know, your average sexist bs
one of the womenâs last name was starboard (yeah I know great name) and she was talking about how even though now she was one of the most accomplished surgeons at the hospital, the male scrub techs (read: guys who didnât go to fucking medical school) and some of the male doctors call her starbitch in the OR because they (scrub techs mostly, strangely enough) try to suggest different ways to care for the patient and she always tells them no you didnât go to med school and I did and so they would go out of their way to get the male doctors to treat the patient differently and then she would have to argue with him to prove what she was doing es right but sometimes the male doctor would come and take over the case anyway and this went on for a while
but then the hospital statistics changed bc this woman was literally being prevented from treating her patients bc the men were interfering and so the administrative head heard about this (she was female) and she was like yâall better stop or yâall better start looking for new jobs and then starboard was allowed to work on her patients and got the scrub techs replaced and all of the sudden, the patients were suddenly doing much better during and after surgery.
when she told this story she was like âpeople still call me a bitch, and maybe I am because I wonât let them walk all over me, but when youâve got something to do, when youâve got a life to save, you have to ignore their bullshit so that you can save someoneâs fuckin life. Sexism should never stop you from accomplishing thatâ
and little eleven-year-old me still remembers that bc I was insecure and awkward and here was this woman who just did what she had to do and ignored all the people trying to stop here and she really was better than all the male doctors (like her patient stats were better) and I thought I should share with you this inspiring woman with the cool last name
