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> nursing is feminine coded occupation and trucking attracts men who want to prove own masculinity In your head maybe?
by ornornor 5mo ago
> nursing is feminine coded occupation and trucking attracts men who want to prove own masculinity
In your head maybe?
- throwuxiytayq 5mo agoSome stereotypes are a useful description of reality. You’ve gotta pick your battles. In the US, 87.3% of nurses are female and 92.3% of truckers are male.
- ornornor 5mo agoMaybe this nomenclature of yours doesn’t help. A “computer” used to be a job mostly done by female. Now it’s the opposite.
- throwuxiytayq 5mo agoI'm not going to hold back my description of reality out of fear that it's somehow magically shaping it. Stating most nurses are female is the mildest observation possible, and doesn't sneak in any opinion whether that's good or bad, unlike your comment.
- rdtsc 5mo ago> In your head maybe? How do you mean? Trucking doesn’t mostly attract men and gp made it up?
- sieabahlpark 5mo ago[dead]
- emodendroket 5mo agoThe profession is in reality overwhelmingly female, and it is associated with women in basically the entire world. Even from a linguistic perspective, the origins of the English word is gendered (the association with wet nurses is unmistakably feminine), and similar phenomenon happen in other languages. It's no longer considered the polite word to use, but if you read moderately old Japanese texts you'll find nurses referred to as "kangohu," no longer preferred because the "hu" part specifically means "woman." I'm sure if we did a survey of more world languages we'd find other hints. Even high-minded economic writing will describe it as "pink-collar" work. You could quite sensibly argue that it should be otherwise but the world is not as we might wish it were.