Wednesday, October 24th, 2007...2:18 pm
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No one likes dental visits, right? I’m with you. It’s one of those things good for you but unpleasurable. Sure, Kid was cooperative getting her teeth cleaned. But she had two things going for her: she got SpongeBob toothpaste at the end (do they have Kahlua flavored for grownups?), and she had the female hygienist in the office.
I like to think either sex could do just about any job (for the SAME pay, too–oops, my feminism is showing). I’m not a sexist. Really. Even in the GYN arena, male or female doesn’t matter in terms of getting the job done. Unless of course, the male is GOR-GEOUS. That changes the whole atmosphere, and don’t deny it, ladies. In reality, I prefer a female, someone who’s actually felt cramps, to be my doctor. Otherwise, you get the blank stare from them, like when I’m trying to tell the dog why she can’t have a walk at that very moment.
Yeah, yeah, wag, wag, but what about the leash? Where’s the leash?
OK, GYN’s and maybe massage therapists. I prefer a male for that job, but only because of that woman with the skinny fingers who left little round bruises on me.
OK, GYN’s, massage therapists, and now, dental hygienists. Why? Well, let’s just say my mouth is only so big. There’s only space in there for a few tools and a few, small fingers, not big fat fingers connected to some young stud with a deep voice saying, “a little wider, please….”
Look, dude, I don’t know what kind of movies you been watchin’ lately, but regular folk don’t get much wider….
Does having preferences make me sexist?
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10 Comments
October 24th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
You’re not sexist, assuming that you’d be just as happy with a male dentist who has very small hands. Just as I’d be perfectly content dating a woman or a man with very large breasts.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:50 am
I had a male hygenist one. It was very weird. It’s interesting, I have never seen him in the office since.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:41 am
You’re not sexist…you just have preferences, and it’s all good.
October 25th, 2007 at 7:24 am
I have a woman dentist and I love it. Her hands are much smaller. Plus, if she hurts me I can take her down. Knowing that seems to make it easier. I have to go into Poulsbo, but for this its worth the drive. I don’t think its sexist, any more than hoping for a big burly fireman if you need to be carried from a 5th floor apartment in a fire. I know there are perfectly competent woman fire fighters, but I argue that they don’t have the “average” women’s build to pass the exam. I’ll go toe to toe on brains any day of the week, but I’m never, no matter how much I work out, ever going to beat most guys at an arm wrestling match. Why would I need to if I can out think them?
October 25th, 2007 at 7:37 am
diesel-are you admitting your bisexuality right here? I feel honored.
chip-I wonder, too, if this guy will be there next time. should I call ahead to ask for the woman??
jenn-yes, I have preferences galore! My hubs might be tired of hearing them all…
sheri-driving to Poulsbo for bakery items, yes; for a dentist visit, no.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:09 am
You had me at Kahlua flavored toothpaste . . . .
October 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
My hubby is a dentist and he has both a male & female assistant. I’ve only had the guy work on my teeth so far and I thought he was great. He’s got this fabulous “Matthew McConaughey” accent which totally distracts me from the “drill & fill.” (Yes, even a dentist’s wife gets cavities. :-P) He’s great with kids, too!
October 25th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
In Chattanooga recently, I saw an attractive female urologist who palpated my “boy parts” as part of an examination … I was terrified that I was going to have some sort of involuntary physiological reaction to that. I tried desperately to think of the most non-sexual thing I could think of. All I could come up with was the Three Stooges.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Everybody should drive to Sluys Bakery five times a day, much as a Muslim bows five times to Mecca ….
October 25th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
honeybell-yes, we could start a whole new line of products! kahlua, baileys, peppermint schnapps, brandy flavored…..
ladyhawke-is that grounds for divorce? a dentist’s wife getting cavities?!
Jim–Sluys was good yesterday, as a matter of fact. Aren’t guys supposed to think of baseball statistics or something like that? 3 stooges? they had all that woo-woo-woo, wiggling around and slapping each other….that’d get anyone going, right?
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