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izzy-springbolt t1_j9iyg3b wrote

Reply to Doctor has sex with patient in emergency department toilets 'to help with chest pain' by alyaaz

>The patient messaged Dr Onyekpe on WhatsApp that she was in A&E. Dr Onyekpe steered the conversation towards sex asking if she has sex as it helps with pain.

>The conversation became more graphic and at 11.16pm, Dr Onyekpe sent her a message asking if he could perform oral sex on her before she left the hospital. Dr Onyekpe then had sex with the patient in the hospital toilets.

Tbf if I was sat bored in the A&E waiting room and a fit doctor asked me if he could eat me out, I'd jump at the chance.

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swisscriss t1_j9ivh1s wrote

Reply to Doctor has sex with patient in emergency department toilets 'to help with chest pain' by alyaaz

> He discharged her but before leaving she gave Dr Onyekpe a piece of paper with her telephone number on it, an employment tribunal heard

Before anyone of you squares starts attacking this man consider the possibility of this happening to you. Some lusty wench throws her gash at you one day and maybe you too would risk your career as an arby's store manager and marriage to the slow girl that hands out pens at the mall

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Zandrick t1_j9ilygi wrote

Reply to comment by ASpaceOstrich in Gritting routes are ‘sexist’ says Cambridgeshire highways chief and ‘must change’ by Bald__egg

If a person can come away from a discussion with a statement “the way they salt the roads is sexist”. The discussion was a waste of time, because that statement is foolish.

Never get so high minded that you need to re-explain a simple statement with five paragraphs and a thesis statement in order to make that statement make sense. Just make the original statement make sense. The way they salt the roads is not sexist, that’s absurd.

“We should salt the roads differently because the way we do it now is not optimal.” Easy, truthful, means the same thing without accidentally calling into question anyone’s moral character.

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ASpaceOstrich t1_j9ijkg8 wrote

Reply to comment by Zandrick in Gritting routes are ‘sexist’ says Cambridgeshire highways chief and ‘must change’ by Bald__egg

That's what people who are discussing systemic racism and sexism are doing. Sure there'll be the obnoxious twitter types who just learnt a new buzzword to justify their own bigotry, but anyone who's opinion actually matters is referring to symptoms not a cause.

Don't let the twitter people drive you away from the actual progressive values. I did for way too long, but fuck those people. I'm not letting them dictate how I think any more.

Being aware of the systemic issues is a big deal because it let's you start thinking about useful changes. How can we solve the root cause? Can we even? Failing that, how can we patch the symptoms up, which in the long term may very well be the most practical way to solve the root cause?

We can't go back and undo racism, but we can attempt to negate its symptoms for long enough that it's no longer leaving scars behind. That's the point behind things like affirmative action.

Or in the case of the road salting example in the OP. They look at practices that people would just assume are put in place for the right reasons and discover that, due to prejudice at the time they were implemented, they aren't actually ideal. On a gut level "road salting practices were sexist" sounds absurd but then when you look at data and the goals and values of society when those practices were implemented suddenly it makes sense. Imagine if they were only salting roads in white neighbourhoods? That's the sort of issue the study has found.

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