Dilemmas In Grey's Anatomy

Grey’s Anatomy, is an on-going television series, with twelve seasons so far, that is a mixture of drama and with one of the most stressful jobs of medical industry, surgery. The series revolves around 5 surgical interns and those from season 1 who survived and became residents or chiefs in the Grey’s Sloan Memorial Hospital in Grace, Seattle. It follows their everyday fight against illness that their patients, along with their fight to live with one another and the curveballs life throws. Each season has its own major dilemma that has every surgeon has a part in. However, from season one till now, surgical interns met and survived the pain known as Dr. Miranda Bailey, played by Chandra Wilson. She has been taken for granite by her male counterparts

Bailey is a female surgeon, yet the typically the traditional role of women was to be a secretary, assistant, or nurse. Females were typically seen as inferior to men, they would often be paid less, and not achieve much success as that of a man would. In season 2 episode 9 a temporary surgeon, Dr. Ken, came to cover someone on leave. Attempting to be a man of little time, he saw Dr. Bailey as a nuisance of time and space demanding if she has heard or seen of a man named the “Nazi”, and she ends the conversation with “The stupidity of the human race” (Grey’s Anatomy). This “Nazi” was said to be a man who was sarcastically has great way of speaking to other, a reputation that astounds surgeons from near and far, and frankly has quite a lot respect for being daring/serious. Inferring to Devor’s article “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitude”, the traditional masculinity is made up of dominant traits where it is brawns over brains. Dr. Bailey calls Dr. Ken a key example of the human race, because he portrays the traditional masculine man, where he may be knowledgeable of his area of skill but lacks intelligence as well as respect toward women. From the way she sarcastically replies to Dr. Ken we can assume that she is in the race that was once ran by just men, proving she is not going to back down. She has gotten their attention, and took it further to where they want to be this “Nazi” in the operation room. Even for the ongoing fight to shine, she doesn’t not allow her

That they are need to be seen as small and inferior. According to Devor’s article, feminine traits are anything that would make a person seem weak and little, and that it goes with the motherly aspect when with children. However, in Grey’s Anatomy, Dr. Bailey has few feminine traits that lay under her masculine ones. For the most part her masculinity derives from her short temper, dominance, and aggressive nature, which is a traditional masculinity. Then you have her intimidation and forcefulness that is overwhelming for a woman to have. Her feminine qualities are that of being protective, motherly, and caring. She cares for her interns, that she gives them her insight of life that sometimes you need to take small steps and look at the tumor bit by bit. She teaches them skills, and now it is up to them whether they use them or not. Some might argue that it is feminist qualities to say she a woman. Often times her aggression is portraying her as the “bitch” character, and even so with the power she now has for being Chief of Surgery (Douglas, 272). “I do stand for the sisterhood with all the other women in this hospital. Four feet eleven inches, overlooked, called girl by your male colleagues. You don’t know. I am woman hear me roar…Now that I am chief of this hospital, it is not my fault if she’s not using skills that I have taught her, it is not my job to give away money if it is not asked