Quote:It's not just at my facility. Every sonographer I've ever talked to has the policy in place that males need chaperones for those procedures. The reason most facilities have the policy in place is to ensure female patients they are save and prevent sexual assault from happening. That's fine, I have no problem with that. The lack of a similar policy being in place for females performing exams on male patients is where the double standard exists. Are female sonographers incapable of sexually assaulting a male patient when performing a scrotal ultrasound? One would have to be incredibly naive to think that.

 

Furthermore, considering that breast and pelvic ultrasounds are probably about 20% of what we do, it negatively affects employment opportunities. A hospital is not suppose to be allowed to discriminate against gender, but why would they hire a female over a male when they will have to pay for the male to have a chaperone during some exams?

 

You ask why I bring this up. It's because this is something that I have a significant amount of personal history with and every female in the profession I have talked to agrees that the double standard exists. It's a good discussion to have with people who are unaware of double standards that negatively affect men.

 

 

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"Generally speaking tho, I cannot think of too many instances where a male, white of otherwise, is discriminated against on the regular."


 

Just a couple things from the top of my head:

 

1. Sexual assaults against women are just about always treated as heinous crimes, and rightfully so. Sexual assaults against men are often trivialized with things like "he probably liked it!". A great example of this is how the public would view a 30 year old male teacher sleeping with a 15 year old female student compared to how the public would view a 30 year old female teacher sleeping with a 15 year old male student.

 

2. Domestic violence against women is a very oft-reported and the awareness on it is high. Domestic violence against men is often trivialized by things like "so what, men are stronger than women" or "stop being a p....".  Watch this video and tell me what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRCS6GGhIRc

163 people go by without speaking up or sticking up for the guy being physically assaulted.

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You veered this discussion topic off pretty significantly. I don't deny this is a good conversation to have, but would have suggested it to have it's own thread. No one knew were you were going, so maybe some of your perception of being slighted was due simply from confusion.

 

Anyway, no ones argued with you about it being a double standard. My question to you was why this rule came about? I asked if it was due to some kind of sexual misconduct that has happened as some point that caused this to go into place. Is it a double standard, yeah, but you cannot deny the vast majority of sexual offenders are male, NOT ALL, but a majority. I believe there are double standards within all social groups regardless of sex or color. It exists. I do agree that woman can be abusers just like men and there seems to be a stigma for the male in this regards and I don't like that at all.

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