Do male nurses get treated differently than female nurses?
For starters I am a male nurse and I get treated different more outside the hospital than inside the hospital. There is a big stigma that nursing is only associated with either being a female or if you are a male then you must be gay. I have gone to parties and asked what I do for a living and when I tell people what I do. They always poke fun at my job but in reality I don’t really care what people think. I love being a nurse. I used to be a firefighter and changed careers to becoming a nurse.I was at a party and this woman who was an attorney for the DA’s office asked what I do and I told her. All night she just ragged on that I must be gay and that my job was for woman only. I just kind of smiled and let her speak. It didn’t really bother me because I love what I do plus I knew I made more money than she did and I was only a nurse. Hence the smiling.Now in the hospital sometimes jobs are not being offered equally for males. I worked at a hospital where all the charge nurses were females. I applied for 1 of 4 open positions as a charge nurse myself and another female were the only ones with charge nurse experience. There were other applicants that had no experience and had less time as a nurse and wouldn’t you know it they hired all females but it was cool I still love my job. It’s not all hospitals but some. In school when I was going through my masters program one of my instructors who was an elderly woman told me she didn’t think male nurses should exist and she was not very nice. Lol maybe it was the way I looked because I’m a minority with a bald head lol but nonetheless being a nurse is still is a great career.Well that’s my experience as a male nurse. Just a note my bad experiences as being a male nurse is far from few and I would say less than 1% of my job treats me different as a male.
Why do firearm owners keep insisting that the AR-15 is not an assault rifle when they clearly have "AR" in their name?
“AR” does NOT stand for “Assault Rifle”. “AR-15” designation is the original manufacturer “Armalite Rifle”. It is a semi-automatic operating bolt/firing mechanism… That means only 1 cartridge is fired, spent casing ejected and new cartridge seated into chamber per single trigger pull by the person firing. This gas operated semi-auto mechanism has been available in many manufacturers’ models’ civilian rifles and used extensively by sportsmen, hunters, etc. for over 100 yrs. AR-15 rifle only shoots a smaller bullet than most rifles, has an easy to customize stock for people who need to do so for physical size or want to be able to switch attachments e.g. iron sights to scope, hand grip, etc. None of these features make an AR-15 more lethal or dangerous than other legal firearms. All firearms must be used by people who know how to use them responsibly, legally and safely.True “Assault Rifles” on the other hand are fully automatic operating bolt mechanism i.e. 1 trigger pull results in multiple shots fired, until either the operator releases the trigger, by designed 3–5 rounds fire or the rifle runs out of ammunition. These weapons were first introduced in German Army at the end of WWII and many countries since have developed their own models for military or law enforcement use only. In general, civilians in the U.S. have not be able to purchase any fully automatic weapons for decades by federal law. Any that are in civilian possession that were “grandfather in”, are high regulated, under extremely tight controls and are mainly in responsible collectors hands. True “Assault Rifles” are virtually never used in crimes in the U.S..
Why are movies from Asia, Europe, Russia, etc. not shown in the mainstream cinemas in the UK, USA, etc.? I don't recall ever seeing a non-Western blockbuster movie in a cinema.
They are, sometimes, and I gather more so in the UK than in the US. I know I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in a mainstream theater, and there are sometimes others.That said, they’re not particularly common in the US. We’re not, alas, big fans of foreign films here. Ignoring the subtitle-vs-dubbing issue (lots of people in the US apparently hate subtitles), it’s a cultural issue. We don’t get exposed to a lot of different cultures here. There are countless cultural subtleties in films which, at the very least, confuse American viewers, and may turn them strongly against the movie. Just to pick a random example, let’s say a dog appears on screen. If you’re showing something to an American audience, you do not kill the dog. In films made in other countries, that may be a reasonable thing to do for whatever reason that needs to be done, but in the US, you do not go there.But there’s vastly more than that. Humor is very dependent on cultural context, so jokes that work in some countries don’t work here (slapstick is pretty universal, but verbal humor is generally not). Subtle or complex dialog may not work when you switch languages. Movies may have to rely on a political context or on ideas of expected relationships between the sexes, between generations, and so on, and not having the same expectations here as audiences do elsewhere, those stories can fall flat.Now, in other countries, which have a steady diet of American films, or at least a steady diet of films from other countries, audiences may be more knowledgeable about or at least open to cultural differences. But in the US, where we’ve had a massive entertainment business catering to our every need for decades, we’ve never had a need to import other people’s movies, so most of us don’t really get them. We get maybe one big foreign film a year which hits mainstream theaters. Most of the time, though, you have to go to a theater specializing in foreign and “art” films for that kind of thing.