"Female medical students offended by one surgeon’s habit of referring to them as ‘little girl’ were..."

“Female medical students offended by one surgeon’s habit of referring to them as ‘little girl’ were denounced as ‘hypersensitive’ by a male peer who suggested that women’s ‘nerve endings’ are ‘absolutely naked’ and thus primed to take offense.”

- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender (via cockchomp)