I love Santos, I truly do (literally watched the show bc I really liked Isa Briones in Goosebumps) but the way people disregard her harsh treatment towards Jarvadi pisses me off. People continue to say giving people nicknames from something embarrassing is normal and funny, but its clear Jarvdi doesn't really see Santos as a friend. They are coworkers. You would not give your coworker a nickname unless you were close.
Even then, if your friend has been repeadtly telling you stop calling them a nickname because it makes them uncomfortable or they simply do not like it, you stop. Why would you make your friends uncomfortable for your own expense? Addationly, this treatment has been ongoing for nearly 8 months, and Jarvadi still tells her to stop. Its a simliar vain to Robby calling Dr Mohan 'Slow-mo'- completely disregarding her own abilities for one fault. Even than ! 8 months on we are actively shown Jarvadi can handle blood now!! She has grown as a person and a doctor a lot. Sure, her facial expressions could have some work, but if you have met anyone in the medical field you should know that is not entirely uncommon.
And as soon as Santos has a bad moment during S1, she becomes incredibly defensive, after the fact she has spent most of the shift up until that point making fun of Whitaker losing a patient and Jarvadi fainting.
No, I do not think Santos is a bad person by any means, but her countless degrading behaviour is not one of her better qualities and should actively not be endorsed. Look, as a white woman, I am not going to go in depth about this- but the way people choose to disregard Jarvadi as a whole, a brown woman, while loving Santos, a mixed Philippian woman (who does have notably lighter skin) just does not sit right with me.
