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- From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
- Subject: Re: Telephones and Doctors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.234652.23756@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:46:52 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.185601.3922@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1992Jul25.211255.7732@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1992Jul26.202033.4656@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Jul26.202033.4656@ibmpcug.co.uk> george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman) writes:
- >->>-On the other hand, if people assume all doctors are rich, then
- >->>-doesn't telling people you are a doctor help you meet women?
-
- In a previous posting by someone, I got credit for the above statement. I
- didn't say this. This line of discussion has gotten a little confused.
-
- ALice
-
- >->
- >->Only women with bad backs and period problems.
- >->
- >->Michael
- >
- I did say the following:
- -
- >-Michael, do you care to explain what you mean here? It could sound like
- >-you were putting women who have back problems and period problems into a
- >-category of some kind.
- >-
- >-Alice
- >
-
- >Yes, I suppose I am. Telling people I'm a doctor helps me meet men, too.
- >
- >They usually have bad backs and prostate problems.
- >
- >Michael
- >
- >--
- >Michael Veltman | george@ibmpcug.co.uk | email direct, save | | some bandwidth
- >
- >"At a cardiac arrest, the first step is to take your own pulse" Samuel Shem - The House of GOD -
- >
-
- My reaction to the statement about women with bad backs and period
- problems is that it sounds like a stereotyping of women who have these
- problems. I can understand how saying you are a doctor makes you
- accessible to people who might, out of poor taste, try to corner you to
- discuss their ailments? There
- was just a note of negative categorization there, even if it was
- not the way it was consciously intended. I would feel the same way if I
- were a man who had had prostate problems, like I was categorized as having
- poor judgement or as being one of "those".
-
-
- I'm glad it wasn't meant the way it first sounded.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Alice
-
-