I'm done, too.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

403. I'm not 'telling women' anything.

I'm suggesting to human beings that in both my anecdotal experiences and in the classes in communication for nurses that I have gone through (with textbooks written by women, in classes taught by women), people respond better to more professional communications than they do to accusatory or insulting ones.

And I am 'personally in the experience' of being part of the audience to whom you're communicating. I don't have the experience of seeing how well such 'tones' work between women, but I certainly have the experience of seeing how well various types of communications are viewed by males. If I wanted to sell a product to a particular group of people, I would test my marketing messages on groups who were composed of members of that group. If you want to get a message across to men, then just maybe you might actually try and ask a few men how well the message is getting across, and which message phrasing works best. If you want to get a message about racism across to white people, you would test your messaging with a white focus group. I can't simply go into a group of non-nurses and use the same language and phrasing I would use when talking with other nurses about a disease process. I have to fit my message to the audience to be best understood. and that's not something that's specific to 'women' or 'men' or any other group. It's a universal in messaging, not tied to the topic under discussion, whether it's misogyny, racism, or even raspberry cane grafting or diabetes.