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[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I give nurses a free pass because of COVID.

How gracious.

I think they just get a lot of men (usually elderly men too)

Gee, perhaps this is coz a) the VA is exclusively for US military veterans - & the vast majority of military veterans (88%) are men; b) people tend to have more health problems & need for medical care in later life; c) there is a particularly large cohort of elderly male US veterans today coz in the 1960s & the early 70s there was a military draft & the US waged a war in Vietnam. Nearly 10 million soldiers served in the US armed during the Vietnam war era; 2.7 million of them served in Vietnam. Now that they are elderly, they've got all the usual health problems that tend to come with old age - plus this cohort of veterans had a very high rate of extensive injuries & amputations & longterm health damage from exposure to toxic, carcinogenic substances like Agent Orange.

https://www.womenshealth.va.gov/womenshealth/latestinformation/facts.asp

http://www.uswardogs.org/vietnam-statistics/

[–]Sunflowerdevyl 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Can confirm. Joined local flying club. Less than 5% of pilots are women. Was sired in all correspondence and when I showed up in person they thought I was the wife.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Damn, I'm so sorry for you and your traumatic experience of being misgendered by people who carried no ill will towards you. I hope you got to go on social media to complain about how an awkward moment literally invalidated your entire being and all your friends responded "yassss kween slay."

[–]Sunflowerdevyl 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These things aren't even awkward if you don't let them be. "No, that's me," works fine.