I was just watching 30 Rock and was dismayed to see that Salma Hayek's character who is a nurse, remark that if she couldn't keep her private duty job she would have to go back to working the night shift at Dunkin' Donuts.
Does anyone else see this as insulting? This implies that there is no skill or training behind nursing...so much so that the only other option for employment is a doughnut shop. In the reverse, this also implies that those working the night shift at Dunkin' Donuts are capable and qualified to work as nurses.
I was disappointed to hear this careless comment because I had been given hope thus far with her portrayal as a nurse. There was no typical portrayal of the nurse as a bimbo-esque white hat short skirt wearing nymphet. She was actually wearing scrubs and a stethoscope and was doing exams on the patients. Then this remark.
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