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Originally Posted by Partless
Oh. Well in that case, we disagree because I find that view sexist.
Some men refuse to see female doctors for similar reasons, that a female doctor can't comment or understand male related issues. I think the assumption here is that just because the Pdoc happens to be a man, suddenly his knowledge and expertise goes out the door and every suggestion he is making becomes that of a man at a club about to pick up the sexiest woman, not of a person trained in medicine and well aware of the various challenges women face in the society. So it becomes: Men like big breasts so that's why he is cautioning against surgery, right?
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I said originally that I don't see anything wrong with her pdoc expressing concern and asking why she's having the surgery. But for him to cut her off mid sentence and almost order her to not have the surgery and talk to her T about it is obnoxious. Gen Cat listed quite a lot of very valid, physical reasons for her choice and he still seemed to be making an assumption that her reasons were psychological. To me that is sexist, because he has no empathy and disisses the list all if physical reasons as if they aren't important enough. I could be reading too much into it, but I've had a similar conversation with a man surrounding our friends voluntary macectomy. He was so upset for her that she was having it done. When I reminded him she's be cancer free he still was concerned. He was like -
but their her breasts she can't remove them!
The pdoc here is similar- he's acting like a reduction is the worst thing she could do. To me, it seems to be coming from an angle that is based on his gender. I mean, with all those reasons she listed why would he still believe this is an issue for therapy?