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I don't think it's at all a coincidence that this is also Nurse's Week and all I'm getting on my timeline is more romantic bullshit about how "caring" and "compassionate" and "superhuman" nurses are--all while I have phone conversations across the nation with nurses who have nuclear-level PTSD on the level of combat veterans from COVID-19 and hospitals are STILL abusing the shit out of us.

Women and AFAB people are literally *not allowed* to have trauma, sadness, agony, pain, fatigue, needs WHATSOEVER. And I'm getting fucking tired of it. We need a general strike for those of us with uteruses--yesterday.

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I’ve thought the same thing the past couple of years. I also was helping the PTA set up for teacher appreciation week and a 5th grade girl saw us in the lounge and asked what we were doing. I told her and she asked “is it teacher appreciation week because it’s near Mother’s Day”. I told her what a great observation she made and it’s very likely why we appreciate female dominated professions this time of the year. She’s already a great feminist at 11 years old!

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I noticed it (the Mother's Day/Teacher Appreciation Week thing) too. I realized it at the Open House that occurred on Thursday, in the middle of Teacher Appreciation Week because I was overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to do something for my mother, stepmother, and myself, when I realized I had not done anything for my son's teacher...and while I was being berated by the bd via text for not letting him come have a vacation weekend in my home.

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