Comment by sophacles | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sophacles | Hacker News Reader

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Programs to encourage men to go into nursing have existed for a very long time.

Heres a couple articles about them:

https://www.purdueglobal.edu/blog/nursing/men-in-nursing/

https://dailynurse.com/recruiting-more-men-to-nursing-school...

Here's the US association for it: https://www.aamn.org/

Here's an academic institution acknowledging the issue: https://www.unlv.edu/announcement/increasing-inclusion-asses...

Googling "programs encouraging men into nursing" gets 70M results.

Whatever nonsense you are inventing in your head is just that: nonsense. When you calm down and are out of "ridiculous baseless ranting mode" I encourage you to ask why you would spout off such utter falsehoods without first taking 10-20s to find out if you are angry at your imagination or reality.

So glad all these programs have gotten men into nursing and solved the problem. There's a lot of money in solving problems once and for all, unlike non-problems that can never be solved, but will always be just a little bit of funding or "social awareness" from being fixed. /s

My comment was not made in ignorance, but in full awareness of the futility and stupidity of such an approach. It's less "ranting" and more "mocking stupidity," which I will continue to do so long as busybody mid-wits keep thinking they are brilliant for upholding attempts to plan society as if they have discovered some novel brilliant plan on a moral crusade to save us from making our own choices.

Nice backpedal! It's nearly believable, so i give it a 7/10. Next time, if you want to be truly believed you should try this:

1. Include hints you might be joking or presenting a "tongue-in-cheek" argument.

2. When called out, don't go with the "no really om a supervillain and tricked you into helping me make a completely unrelated argument" trope. It's well known as a scramble response to an unexpected retort.

The problem ofc, is that despite paying a little better and being a more open career path for people who aren't traditional students (plenty of programs for working class people) the hours are god awful and the job can be potentially draining if not disturbing at times.

Most people I know rn who are nurses are desperately looking to switch careers.

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