Yuri Project
joined Jul 14, 2016
Am I just paranoid, or is the whole "School nurse casually remarks that love between girls is just a phase" thing turning into a legit yuri trope? Seriously, I feel like I've seen SO many nurse characters in yuri stories throw this shit around. If it was just coming from teacher characters, I'd get it, but friggin' medical professionals should know better!
I've also seen that a few times. I think a couple of them it turned out that the female school nurse was herself gay and repressed, or had been bitten in love and was jaded, and thus just pushing her own emotional insecurities onto her students (so it's just part of the plot of the story, nothing to do with nurses in general).
But even if they're just honestly attempting to counsel students, it might make sense. Even in the US or other places where gay marriage is legal, there are hold-outs who believe for whatever reason that homosexuality is a choice. Medical professionals are still human and subject to their societies' norms. Even if the medical guidelines are updated (they're often not), individuals still have their own prejudices and schools.
If it's the school nurse's role to counsel students, then perhaps it is realistic that it would often be the school nurse who tells students that homosexuality is just a phase, and that they'd believe that doing so was part of their job and in students' best interests.
by the way, that's not what's going on in this particular story