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Originally posted by ltl/fb
It can't be a discussing sex or being seen naked thing because of my preference for sex with men (and I discuss sex and am seen naked by people I have sex with).
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I think it has everything to do with your preference for having sex with men. You don't want a clinical encounter to have any sexual undertones in it. Neither does any sane individual. When you are going to a dermatologist, you aren't required to splay open your legs (unless you have some skin thing on your cooter). It is a sexually neutral encounter.
When you go to an OB/GYN, your sexual organs are being examined. The only context in which you are used to having a man do that to you is a sexual one. You don't want your encounter with your OB/GYN to be the least bit sexual and therefore you are more comfortable with a woman.
I am not saying that male OB/GYNs treat a vaginal exam as a sexual event. They don't unless they are criminals, which there aren't many who are. But the patients are used to only exposing their genitals to members of the opposite sex in a sexual context. The doctors get very used to seeing the genitals in non-sexual context so it isn't an issue for them. For the patients, it is.
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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I get a little more creeped out by a strange male sticking his hands up me and rubbing my breasts than I do a strange woman doing the same thing. It's kinda rational though: people are apparently much more likely to be straight than gay, so the creepy sexual aspect is much more likely to be a factor with a man.
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I agree, and that is precisely why it isn't sexism that causes you to pick a woman doctor. You aren't doing it out of a belief that a man cannot be just as good of a doctor as a woman and therefore you are only going to use women OB/GYNs. You are doing it because of what we both have said.
Not every discriminatory act is sexist/racist. The reason why you engage in the discriminatory act determines whether it is sexist or racist. The PC crowd fails to distinguish between the two.
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