LOL!
I once had a conversation with my brother about him seeing a female doctor. He said it made him uncomfortable. I told him that women had been having to see male doctors for a very long time.
He said, “I never thought about that...”
So true!
I remember back when Archie Bunker was confronted with his first “lady doctor”, as they were called at the time. Men regularly expressed doubt that they were as capable as male doctors, more out of their ideas of women’s limitations than due to affirmative-action promoting the less capable.
Much of that has passed, of course, but in those areas where it hasn’t (e.g., airliner piloting) IMO it would have, had AA not entered into it. There would be fewer women with such positions, but those who had them would be perceived as having got there on merit. The same general dynamic would apply racially on a much greater level, had equal bars for qualification been applied throughout.
The White Men who are physicians didn’t get there by way of affirmative action. They didn’t fill anyone’s diversity quotas.
That can be said of NO other group.
I had a female doctor 3 years ago. Company doctor and I had no more access to her when I retired.
She was GREAT! She would call me to check and see how I was doing when I had Covid.