This is so over the top. The picture is friggen cute people need to get off their high horses and enjoy a sweet pic of sweet children who have no idea what sexism is.

I dont get how people can defend this kind of sexist gender conforming pictures and then be so 'surprised' when most people chose profesions 'apropiate for their gender'. We all need role models when we are growing up. Its very damaging for kids to keep seeing constantly the same outdated roles. Yes, women can be nurses and men can be doctors, thats not the problem. Is how kids are expected and told to be better at certain areas since they are born just because of their genitals.

The anger is unfortunately not about this very picture. It`s about the minds of the people who force girls to wear pink and boys to be doctors bla-bla. Even in the movies or tv shows nurses are the girls, whom doctors wanna have sex with (not a decent relationship, just sex). There are lots of example of this situation and then you post this picture with the words "so cuuute". It is cute yeah; in a world, where men and women are equals but not here sir. YES, we are offended bc it is basically a reaction to the actions that we see all day long, everywhere. When people start equal pictures of the boys and girls, this pic will be cute then.

Wow. People are so sensitive these days. I mean, maybe the little girls WANTS to be a nurse? A lot of little girls do. And maybe the boy WANTS to be a urologist? Who knows! I truly think NO ONE meant any harm at all in posting this photo. Come on guys, you KNOW that if that little boy was wearing the pink nurse outfit, and the girl was wearing the GREEN, (not even boy-blue!) outfit, there would have been a much bigger sh*tstorm about it, riiiiiight? Because then people would be hollering c**p about the LGBT+ community, and to me, that is a LOT worse than claiming sexism. They look like 2 kids, probably 2 sicks kids, patients, holding hands, while they are in the hospital, trying to have a good time. All they care about is all of the ATTENTION those harmless little outfits are getting them, all of the smiles, and "Awwwww's" and that's IT. PERIOD. Go fight about something else now, something worth of fighting for!

I am a nurse and a female and i am not offended by the scrub suit. so i guess the kids don't care either.

Don't down vote me but when I was a kid i thought that nurses were the name of female doctors. Nurse= female doctor. Doctor=male doctor. I only realized I was wrong when I was 9 because I broke my arm and the nurse that helped me was male. This was in 2015

Maybe we should not project our judgment on these children, particularly not without context. Discussion about hidden sexism are needed and so are scrutizing the role models we impose om our children. But we should not make the children subject of that discussion.

Well I also find it sexist and misleading, I myself am a young female doctor and must sadly say that most patients automatically assume I am a nurse when I am not fast enough to introduce myself, which is not an offend to me, female and male nurses are amazing colleagues of me, BUT no one ever assume that my young male doctor colleagues are nurses, they are automatically doctors in people's minds and this needs to change. It is not about war against men or b******t like that it is just about simple equality and changing sexist norms against both MEN and WOMEN. When we will move from sexism it will not sound lame and strange f.e for a man to say that something is hard for him, that he needs help in some situations, that he is insecure and so on, which is mostly acceptable for women and sadly almost never for men, which is also a sexism.

f*****g christ. grow up

My dad was a nurse!

Why is the word sexist in quotes? It IS sexism!

The kids probably don't even know what it says.

I went to go contribute to society down here then got sidetracked reading all the long comments. ;)

What makes anyone crying over this think that either of the kids have any idea what the scrubs say they're like 2, of course they can be/ do whatever the wish when they're adults but again they're like 2 and it's pretty doubtful they have any idea what is written on their clothes

Most people just need to get a life and something to do outside social networks. Getting pissed at anything...

The intention of this picture may or may not be sexist, but my gosh people, just because her uniform says nurse and his says dr in no way means it's sexist! Feminism use to mean something, but it has 100% changed in the last several years. It's now mostly (but not all) just a group of whinny brats that want to cry about stupid c**p and pull things out of context and blow them up into much bigger things that they were just not. It's getting old real quick. There are more serious issues and other real and true sexist people to call out instead of crying about made up sexism... my gosh, most of the "sexism" I see nowadays is stuff that has just been majorly pulled out of context. In this case, it could go either way and there is no way of truly knowing without the publisher saying him or her-self. But why jump to conclusions and call someone guilty of something when they have a real possibility of actually being innocent of what they are being accused of???

Please remember that this was probably staged by adults who follow common stereotypes

I spent a month in the hospital one time and another 10 days another time, in that forty days, I had two male nurses and 2 female doctors, all the rest were “gender norms”. The male nurses were a little rough-er around the edges, but just as caring as the females. The two female doctors were just as reclusive and annoying as any male doctor that came to see me in there. The underlying urge to do which ever job, whichever gender the person may be, is what matters.

Interesting debate here. Personally, yeah it’s cute but yeah it is problematic. We don’t know what the deal is with these kids and their role models and aspirations, but putting the picture in the public eye serves to reinforce gender stereotypes. The problems go further though. By getting all upset about the gender issues we are inadvertently saying that nurses are inferior to doctors, which sucks, and it’s defaults like that that perpetuate issues over pay. Indoctrination starts very very early - it’s very common for us to have to challenge something our son says in that respect, eg ‘l like girl’s colours like pink’. So all the various levels going on in this picture concern me. But to really unpick it some context is needed, which we don’t have. Whichever side of this you fall down on, challenge your defaults. Don’t neglect one issue because it’s not the one that leaps out at you.

Really stop this b******t now, for all we know they both chose that uniform themselves, we all know there are plenty of m&f doctors and nurses, go to any surgery or hospital and you will see plenty of both.

Does it occur to any of the people commenting that "maybe she wants to be nurse", because she's been taught that being a nurse is for women and being a doctor is for boys? That's the issue people have with this picture, it's these kinds of sexist attitudes that discourage girls AND boys from pursuing certain careers that society has taught them to associate with the gender opposite to theirs.

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Who is to say the child in pink with the long hair is the girl.

wow we got some people on this earth who are on a whole other vibration and they are going to vibrate themselves right out of existence. It isnt traditional. It just is what it is. Many women are nurses. Many men are nurses. Many women are doctors. Many men are doctors. But these are children and not a damn one is a doctor or a nurse. Go suck an egg and give the rest of the world a holiday from your hysterics.

It's just a picture of two children in cute little outfits? No one knows them, or their parents. So they should have no say in the goddamn matter. This isn't sexist. If you WANT TO make a huge deal about nothing. Be my guest. Doesn't mean you're right though.

I like the one that changed the words to: "Health Professionals in Training". That is clearly stated, not sexist or teaching gender roles or putting caps on either adorable [from the back] child. These two youngin's might be the children of parents in these real life roles and everyone is happy. We all need to stay out of other people's business an mind our own.

what if the girl wanted a pink outfit and she wanted to be a nurse when she grew up, and what if the boy wanted a green outfit and he wanted to be a doctor when he grew up?

I am so god d**n tired of this bullcrap! Women should be treated just like men! We're able to do hard work!AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

This is just a shame :( I know that women are typically nurses and men are doctors, but there are some female doctors and male nurses out there. This needs to stop!

Sierra, no, I was asking if thats what some if these people thought, because thats what they are implying. it was a question to them, not a statement. If they think there is something wrong with that picture they are basically saying that girls seeing a girl as a nurse has a negative impact, which is completely bonkers. I think people are mucb too picky in trying to police these things. I am all for women being nurses or doctors and there is nothing wrong with either.

Who give a s**t whether the boy is in doctor and the girls is in nurse, it doesnt f*****g matter

This is a wonderful picture. There is a very high probability that these children will be something other than doctors and nurses. It's amazing that we live in society that makes a big deal out of nothing. There is absolutely something that will offend someone about everything.

they should just have 'doctor in training' shirts in, idk, red bc that is not strictly seen as a girl or boy color

My first thought: These are very cute kids.

What if the boy doesn't WANT to be a nurse but would like to be a doctor? What if that girl CHOSE the nurse uniform? Would you still condemn them? Because they made "gender specific " independent choices? Give it a rest.

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