[AQGeiger]

Ping to an article you might find interesting.

I've never understood why people make such a big deal out of a man wanting to be a nurse.

[NonValueAdded]

There is one aspect that the article didn't mention and that is in the common view, boys are doctors; girls are nurses. A male nurse is therefore someone not good enough to be a doctor. Of course this doesn't recognize that a nurse is a highly skilled individual and often as good as a doctor when it comes to care decisions. But it is definitely second place so I think it is a competence concern revealed by gender stereotypes. Note that the concern is highest in older patients who grew up under the boy =, girl = model. I'm not saying it is well-founded or anything, just why I think people react the way they do.

[sassbox]

I don't either. There's a strong demand for nurses in this country that will only become stronger in the future. Any qualified person (male or female) who enters the nursing field is something to be happy about.

[Born Conservative]

Thanks for the ping. The article was interesting, but the comments here were more interesting. Lots of narrow-minded conservatives around here (half-kidding. Many FReepers complain about being stereotyped, yet there's a lot of that going on in this thread).