GlitterDoctor: So help me, if one more alpha physician “tells” me something I straight out told them ten minutes prior like it’s their own idea, someone’s losing their balls. And it’s not going to be me
xVerity: I can’t speak for other professions, but in medicine there is a difference between how alphas and omegas are treated. Most of it is covert, but it doesn’t make it any less toxic. In my opinion, it’s exacerbated by the number of older doctors who’ve yet to retire. Especially men, although there are some alpha females who have strongly antiquated views.
GlitterDoctor: I’m sure it’s just as bad in other professions
GlitterDoctor: Knot, how many omega investment bankers were in your old company?
KnotMyProblem: Uh…
GlitterDoctor: Yeah. See? None, I’m guessing. Or maybe a couple you kind of wrote off as green or whatever
KnotMyProblem: I don’t know if it’s because of prejudice, or just because not many omegas are graduating from college with the necessary degrees
GlitterDoctor: Okay, right there? That’s a problem, too. Education is just as bad as the workforce. Omegas have to fight harder to get into alpha dominated programs. We go through pretty much the same bullshit women do when they’re trying to establish themselves in STEM careers, or god forbid a trade
Gwynning: I never noticed
GlitterDoctor: Well, it exists
xVerity: I agree. I’ve seen it firsthand.
GlitterDoctor: xV, I love how woke you are
GlitterDoctor: And even though I went off before, I don’t have hard feelings toward any of you. The truth is, it’s not something a lot of people think about, especially since so much has improved in the last hundred years. It’s easy to think we’ve achieved some kind of equal utopia, but that’s not the case. There’s still a lot of groundwork to be done
xVerity: I have found the recent influx of omega doctors in the field encouraging—especially into surgical specialties.
GlitterDoctor: Oh, yeah. I don’t mean to sound all doom and gloom, just that it’s been a bumpy road, and I only got to where I am because I persevered
GlitterDoctor: Let me back it up a little so I can answer the interdimensional visitor’s questions
TeenDad2: I know you’re typing right now, Glit, and I don’t want you to stop, but I just wanna say that I’m proud of you! It takes a lot of strength to do what you do. I haven’t really encountered all that much hardship from being an omega, but I guess it’s because I kind of keep to myself and don’t mind playing a more traditional role
LoveHarley: thats okay TD. i dont think anyone is angry at u for that
xVerity: Not at all. Everyone should be able to live the way they want to, so long as it’s legal and doesn’t impede the health, safety, or quality of life of others. The problem comes from those in a position of privilege who are actively trying to keep others out of their sphere of existence.
xVerity: I’m sure when Glit’s done typing, he’ll touch on that more.
GlitterDoctor: So being a doctor wasn’t an entirely selfless decision. I wanted a job where money wouldn’t be an issue, and I had an aptitude for life science, so medicine just made sense. I was that annoying kid in school who was both hot as fuck and smart as hell, so I ended up surprising a lot of people. One advantage (if you can even call it that) of being an omega in an alpha-driven profession is that if you’re hot, you get treated way differently than if you’re not. That’s a whole other awful, ugly, wrong-as-fuck affair, but I’m only slaying one giant today, so it’ll have to wait for another angry rant. It was pretty much a Madonna-whore complex situation, where I was both given preferential treatment and abused because of my genetics. For a while I thought about dropping out, because it was pretty much like being gaslit 24/7, but when I realized what was going on, I told myself I had to stick it out. No old douchebag with a hateboner was going to keep me from doing what I wanted with my life, and even when my life got shitty after my parents died, I kept at it. My brothers and I figured out a way to make it work. So, TL;DR, I became a doctor because of aptitude and spite.
TeenDad2: I love that <3
LoveHarley: im still so sorry about ur mom and dad glit
GlitterDoctor: Thanks
GlitterDoctor: xV, I think you summed it up pretty well. I don’t have hard feelings towards anyone who wants to lead a more “traditional” lifestyle, but if you’re gonna actively try to tear down others who prefer other lifestyles, YOU are the problem
TeenDad2: That makes sense. Thank you!
Gwynning: I feel like there’s so much I don’t know
GlitterDoctor: There probably is. But you know what? It’s okay. If you’re open to learning, and if you listen and modify your behavior when someone else tells you there’s a problem, that’s what’s important
GlitterDoctor: I think I already kind of answered the second part of your question. Basically, I was treated differently than my alpha peers because of my genetics. Either idolized or demonized. A lot of the time I was considered less competent without being given a chance to prove my aptitude. Oh, and a TON of professors tried to hit it. There was one really nasty case where I was pretty much told to suck dick or I’d fail the class. Which, yawn, so cliche. I sicced the administration on his skeezy ass so fast he barely knew what hit him. By the end of my first year, I’d become the protector of my omega classmates. Which, you know, didn’t exactly help how I was perceived, but I’d rather be fierce than suck gross old man dick, so there’s that
GlitterDoctor: It feels really ironic that after all that, I’d meet a guy who abused and controlled me as much as my ex did, but grief does weird things to people, and I wasn’t in my right mind. After my parents died I wasn’t all there anymore
