I read in another post recently that a female doctor felt offended and really tired and upset among all the other sexism she deals with on a daily basis, that a rscent patient refused to shake her hand (and did claim religious reasons - so i'm assuming he was Muslim) when she greeted him, and her male colleague, who was shadowing her for training, got all the attention and respect. Was shaken his hand, the patient talked to him directly.
Now her colleague the way she described him was a complete a***hole, and he should not have stepped over her like that, or pushed her aside even though she was the authority in the room, the doctor who would be doing the procedure, the one who isn't IN-TRAINING. And she may have done better to more aggressively assert herself in the situation, but I guess she may have been caught off guard.
A lot of people complain that a man or woman's choice to avoid all physical contact - even handshaking - with the opposite sex, as something offensive. Like this woman was very upset by it, she felt it is wrong. She thought that because he refused to shake her hand, he didn't respect her position.
How can we explain this practice (which some like the patient take very seriously, and some are more liberal with or know how to navigate certain social situations when things like handshakes or light hugs in different cultures are appropriate and not appropriate.) to non-Muslims in a way that doesn't make them think so negatively?
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