Stigma & Gender Bias – Deb

 

Deb feels that her physical looks led to assumptions.

Transcript

And the fact that the doctors were so rude to me. So utterly mean to me. They saw one or two tattoos on my body. They made assumptions. I didn’t smoke. I didn’t drink. I ran a 24-hour a day daycare for single moms that were on shift work. I couldn’t drink. I couldn’t party. I couldn’t afford to. But I’m not like that. But they made assumptions about me, they really did. And I think those assumptions you know, got put in a file. Because every time I went back and saw someone different, but they all had the same ‘oh, oh, oh’ and they just passed me on.


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