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A health trust has turned down money for heart testing equipment because the cash was raised by male fundraisers dressed up as female nurses.




The chief executive of the trust in Shropshire said the bed push event, which has taken place in the market town of Ludlow for three decades, was insulting and demeaning.

Over the years the bed push has raised tens of thousands of pounds, and funds raised this summer were earmarked to provide ECG equipment at Ludlow hospital.

But bosses at the Shropshire community health NHS trust have written to the Ludlow Hospital League of Friends declining the money.

The chief executive of the trust, Jan Ditheridge, and its chair, Mike Ridley, explained: “The presentation of men dressed as female nurses in a highly sexualised and demeaning way is wrong, very outdated and insulting to the profession.”


https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... s-donation

It's Benny Hill nurse as sexual fetish humor. It's sexist and demeaning.

It's nice those men want to raise money for a good cause, but they should have a darts or billiards competition or something along those lines;

it's 2017 and high time to show professional women respect - all women, for that matter.

BoSoxGal wrote:I'm sorry that the world is changing in ways that upset you, Gob.

I know a lot of nurses who would be offended by the way those men are dressed as nurses, and I entirely understand.

Maybe if they donned the wigs and wore modest scrubs and sensible clogs or shoes like real nurses do, nobody would be offended and everyone could be happy.

If it's 'no fun' without short short skirts and exposed bosoms, and you don't see how that's sexist . . .

The curious thing about the British and their predilection for dressing men as women and women as men for entertainment is that it’s so deeply embedded in the culture that we barely notice it as a quirk. It’s only when people from elsewhere start questioning pantomimes or androgynous pop stars or fancy-dress blokes with balloons up their T-shirts that we have a moment’s pause to think, “Hang on a second, we do this a LOT, don’t we?”

It could have started anywhere, but the most relevant precedent to today’s world of men in dresses is the theater of Elizabethan England, in which it was considered unthinkable that a woman would lower herself to being seen on stage pretending to be another woman in public. That’s a man’s job, especially as so many plays contained saucy humor. And so from the start (assuming this is indeed the start), part of the entertainment is watching a man that you know is a man pretending to be a woman, and being the subject of bawdy innuendos about various body parts.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2 ... ng-history

Lord Jim wrote:I have to say that when I look at this picture:



"highly sexualised" ain't a phrase that comes to mind...

Big RR wrote:Who's not wearing sensible footwear? Most seem to be wearing athletic footwear/sneakers, which I have seen many nurses wearing. as for the outfits being out of style, maybe that's why they got them cheap at the surplus store.

Gob wrote:The tyranny of the faux-pious minority.

The nurses have the right to be offended and the hospital has the right to reject funds raised by these means