Sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape have been referred to as surgery’s open secret.

There is an untold story of women being fondled inside their scrubs, of male surgeons wiping their brow on their breasts and men rubbing erections against female staff. Some have been offered career opportunities for sex.

The analysis - by the University of Exeter, the University of Surrey and the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery - has been shared exclusively with BBC News.

Nearly two-thirds of women surgeons that responded to the researchers said they had been the target of sexual harassment and a third had been sexually assaulted by colleagues in the past five years.

Women say they fear reporting incidents will damage their careers and they lack confidence the NHS will take action.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    Yes, but essentially saying “not all men” serves no other purpose than to enable men to continue to ignore and exclude themselves from the problem, making them actively a part of the problem.

    Edit: I find it absolutely hysterical that you assholes can’t help yourselves but pipe up and continue to expose yourselves to be exactly the kind of men we are talking about (when all it takes it to literally just… not. You realise you do have the ability to just shut the fuck up, right?). Enjoy whining in to the void, I’ve already wasted too much time on you clowns.

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      What are you going on about?

      Nobody in this thread has said “not all men”.

      The top comment said “can people just not suck”, then OP responded saying “actually, in this case, only men suck”.

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        Except you did, insisting on saying “people are terrible” as an answer to “men are terrible” is not only pretending people of other genders are part of the problem when they’re not but is

        essentially saying “not all men”

        Not that any of this will stop you from continuing to try to derail the conversation instead of just accepting that this is a problem with men, no matter how uncomfortable that is for you to deal with.

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      But they didn’t say that? They said ‘men are terrible’ is included in the phrase ‘people are terrible’ because men are people.

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        Except they did, insisting on saying “people are terrible” instead of “men are terrible” is not only pretending people of other genders are part of the problem when they’re not but is

        essentially saying “not all men”

        Not that any of this will stop you from continuing to try to derail the conversation instead of just accepting that this is a problem with men, no matter how uncomfortable that is for you to deal with.

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          Why can’t we say not all men when it’s not all men? Can I say not all women are as rude as you?

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          Yes, in this case men are absolutely to blame, I am not denying this.

          I believe they intended their comment as a general statement not specific to sexual harassment/assault. It felt like a fatalist response, not as an attempt to derail the conversation.

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      Would you do the same for different races or religions?
      “Yes, but essentially saying “not all muslims” allows muslims to continue to ignore and exclude themselves from the problem, making them actively a part of the problem.”

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        Lmfao at you thinking you “got me”… 🤣🤣

        If the discussion was about a situation where a power imbalance clearly and obviously benefitted Muslims, then yes (except there isn’t a global problem with the power imbalance favouring Muslims on anywhere the same scale as there is for men).

        It really isn’t difficult once you take your head out of your ass.

        Or you can continue to make up as many strawmen and false equivalencies as you like to try and derail the conversation, but all that achieves is you showing your ass as being part of the problem, knowingly now, because you’ve been provided with information that should make you rethink your bad take, not double down on it.

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          I suppose not all women are as rude as you. Does that ignore and exclude you from the problem?

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      If it’s not them who caused the problem, why can’t they be excluded from the problem? Are you to blame for any other women’s problems?