Carry On Nursing
I can’t see what that problem is here:
MPs Peter Bottomley and Tim Laughton appear in the calendar to support a campaign to stop the downgrading of Worthing and Southlands hospitals.
But it offended nurses at Worthing Hospital who complained to Unison which has now called for it to be scrapped…
[Unison says] “It is a dinosaur stereotype of nurses as sexual objects which is deplorable and inappropriate and unacceptable.” (BBC)
Oh come on! Get off your ridiculous high horse. It is a joke to raise money to save a hospital. There are far, far, more distasteful things that happen every day without any intent to do good. It is because Labour have failed to manage the money they have pumped into the NHS properly that such are campaigns are necessary.
What if it was two Labour MPs. Would Unison be complaining then? Bollocks would they be. They’d be lauding them for doing a public good.
Even if the particular calendar may be ill-advised, it is an attempt to a lot of good and to, in the end, save lives. Sex sells, and it’s as simple as that.
Source: BBC
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Obviously your not intelligent to think its just a bit of fun ? Get off your sexist high horse. dinosaur stereotype of nurses is quite true !
If you were to poll the nurses to find out if they found this offensive. You would find only two voting yes: Millie Tent and her hairy mate.
Well if I had a vote I certainly would vote yes. And I never was a nurse but I worked with many many nurses over many years. They have enough trouble maintaining a professional image as often they are seen as nothing more than caregivers, giving spongebaths, taking vital signs and making the beds. Today nursing is a very sophisticated profession so I can see them not liking being considered sex symbols.
Back to the drawing board with that idea. Yes sex sells things but this in inappropriate use of sex.IMHO.
Well, anonymous, you’re certainly not intelligent since you don’t seem to be able to use grammar properly. And you don’t have the balls yo actually leave a name.
jmb, of course nursing is a sophisticated profession. But that doesn’t mean that using an image of them as sexy is wrong. It isn’t denigrating them or sexist to do so, but playing on a stereotype in order to save a hospital. It is quite obviously meant as a joke. It is this sort of overreaction by a few which makes nurses look worse than a few “sexy” pictures.
When I was in the Navy we had a saying: there are only two certain things in life, death and nurses.