Comments on: Somebody help my cow https://sorrywatch.com/somebody-help-my-cow/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:38:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/somebody-help-my-cow/#comment-214805 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:22:24 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5625#comment-214805 In reply to A.

Thank you, and wow. That’s a perfect example of a male established practitioner not mentoring — REVERSE- MENTORING — an aspiring female.

]]> By: A https://sorrywatch.com/somebody-help-my-cow/#comment-214804 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:03:55 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5625#comment-214804 I grew up in production ag. and meant to become a large animal vet. At first our herd health vets were a married couple (man/woman) who took me seriously, talked about microbiology, took me around to other farms. They moved away, and our new vet would say why did I want to wear a coverall, didn’t girls like pretty clothes? I would never have admitted it bothered me, but I ended up not pursuing that career.

Thanks for this wonderful post and blog (and the discussion of bovine singular!).

]]> By: tanita https://sorrywatch.com/somebody-help-my-cow/#comment-214803 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:37:07 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5625#comment-214803 Oh, this. So dumb. I have THREE friends who are female and veterinarians and TWO of them are large animal vets. I have sighed with them through their experiences on the field, where farmers have actually asked them if they could do the job, because they are small or short or whatnot, and … wow. The sexism, it is real. That it flows back to the AABP-AVMA is… depressing, and in truth, what REINFORCES the farmer’s stupid attitudes. Shame all round.

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