Double Standards and Bullsh!t
I came across this post last night in which a young woman was responding to a comment. I don't know if the comment was on one her posts or some else's, however, the gist of the comment was that white women are married before they graduate nursing school. Her response to the comment was to say that a man who proposes to a woman while she is in nursing school, especially if she's just about to graduate, is looking to "secure the bag". She tells the viewers that these men have a plan and that plan is these soon-to-be, or would be, nurses. She then goes on to tell her viewers that she knows about these men because she hears all of her co-workers complaining about them. She then goes on to give a few examples one such being that a co-worker of hers could only take 8 weeks of maternity leave because her husband doesn't make enough. The video is below. You can view it on my Instagram page as a remixed reel. Anyhow, the video got me to thinking about how well it wo