Sexy nurse request reliably riles writer
The Quebec nursing order is asking people to avoid sexy nurse costumes this Halloween, saying they bring the profession into disrepute. R*chard M*rtineau gets bent out of shape complaining about it.
MBC, in turn, wails that he won’t be able to dress up as Pocahontas because of the wokes.
Is it “woke” for a professional order to ask for a little respect?
Have these guys tipped over consciously into self‑parody?
Blork 17:54 on 2022-10-25 Permalink
And it’s not like anyone’s asking for it to be illegal FFS.
Chris 20:09 on 2022-10-25 Permalink
>Is it “woke” for a professional order to ask for a little respect?
Is it even disrespectful? I don’t think so.
The nursing order needs to take a chill pill.
Kate 20:12 on 2022-10-25 Permalink
Chris, have you been R*chard M*rtineau all along?
dhomas 00:42 on 2022-10-26 Permalink
Dick M: «Peut-on s’amuser une journée par année sans que les curés nous disent: ❝Tu n’as pas le droit de faire ci et tu n’as pas le droit de faire ça.❞»
Also Dick M (paraphrasing), to nurses: “tu n’as pas le droit de demander du respect.”
DisgruntledGoat 01:50 on 2022-10-26 Permalink
Hi Kate, just a note to say I love the alliteration in this headline. It gives me fond memories of playing SimCity 2000 and the feedback in the local newspaper from the city councilors based on your (limited) player decisions, haha.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/06/history-of-sim-games-part-1/3/
dhomas 06:44 on 2022-10-26 Permalink
@DisgruntledGoat I just heard “reticulating splines” in my head after reading your comment.
Chris 09:33 on 2022-10-26 Permalink
Kate, I don’t even know who he is. And what’s with the asterisk anyway? Is his name a curse word to you? Or do you deify him like G-d? 🙂
I recall in the Bill 21 debate days, most commentators here were saying people should be free to choose their own clothing, regardless of what it represents to others. Many feel the hijab represents patriarchy, repression, subjugation of women, etc. (see Iran). But no need to worry that wearing such clothing would negatively impression others, it was argued. Yet now, the populace is apparently so impressionable that the sight of a sexy nurse costume (for just one day per year!), will cause them to lose respect for the profession. Nonsense.
Kate 09:58 on 2022-10-26 Permalink
This has nothing to do with Bill 21 or hijabs, Chris. Ask any nurse about being groped. Ask any nurse about being treated as a giggly sex doll rather than a working professional.
The asterisks are so he can’t be found here by a web search.
Joey 09:59 on 2022-10-26 Permalink
FFS Chris. The point isn’t that wearing a costume that trivializes a group of women will cause others to ‘lose respect’ for women in nursing; it’s that wearing a costume reveals that lack of respect the costume-wearer *has* for women in nursing. It diminishes and objectifies them and is deserving of being called out. The parallels to women wearing or not wearing religious garb is only relevant if you’re purposefully trolling, which I don’t think is your intent. Winding up on the same side of an issue as assholes like Martineau and MBC happens from time to time. Take a breath and maybe consider if that’s where you meant to end up…
Kevin 10:20 on 2022-10-26 Permalink
@Chris
The name is Richard Martineau, a noted columnist for Quebecor.
He spouts the usual racist rubbish while pretending that ethnically French Quebecers are always the victims, even as he continually punches away at anyone who doesn’t have his background.
Aaand female doctors or nurses are routinely propositioned by patients.
If Quebec allowed doctors to refuse patients, there’s a hell of a lot of men who would find themselves without medical care.