Connor Donnelly, from Mauchline, East Ayrshire, is wheelchair bound, blind, non verbal and barely able to sit up but his mum says she was told to look for jobs for him.
Sure yes, absolutely there are all sorts of bullies out there but there are also some gendered job roles out there too. These are three of the most common jobs for women who were bullies in school. The most common jobs for men who were bullies in school are law enforcement, military, and sales. Real estate is also extremely common but roughly equal in gender distribution.
PubMed is overflowing with psych studies on this subject. There’s an incredibly common phrase in medicine, “Nurses eat their young”. Misogyny comes in when you ascribe this to being an individual problem of bad eggs, rather than a systemic one of a job category which is toxic and has asymmetrical power dynamics.
All of these industries permit low accountability, give aggressive people unchecked decision-making authority, and provide easy access to and control over vulnerable populations.
Sure yes, absolutely there are all sorts of bullies out there but there are also some gendered job roles out there too. These are three of the most common jobs for women who were bullies in school. The most common jobs for men who were bullies in school are law enforcement, military, and sales. Real estate is also extremely common but roughly equal in gender distribution.
PubMed is overflowing with psych studies on this subject. There’s an incredibly common phrase in medicine, “Nurses eat their young”. Misogyny comes in when you ascribe this to being an individual problem of bad eggs, rather than a systemic one of a job category which is toxic and has asymmetrical power dynamics.
All of these industries permit low accountability, give aggressive people unchecked decision-making authority, and provide easy access to and control over vulnerable populations.