Women are often revered as the care taker in society with an adept ability to tend to the sick and lame. In an episode of Scrubs, one of the female doctors is having a problem with patients not getting better, while her close male-friend doctor is easily curing patients. In a discussion during one of their breaks, he jokingly suggests that she just flash one of her patients who is having trouble healing. In a moment of desperation, she flashes the patient. The next day, when she went to check on him, she see's him walking out, as if never sick. She attributes his sudden recovery to her "magical breasts" and starts flashing all of her patients in an attempt to heal them.
Why would she all of the sudden start believing that by showing her breasts to ill men, they will suddenly make a recovery? Could this be an example of a generalization that all men need is simply sexual? I think this episode demonstrates, in a humorous manner, how a woman would go to any length to take care of someone.
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Jon, this is an excellent find! There is something more there though. Why would breasts be used specifically? There are the obvious connections to motherhood, of course, but there is something more. Keep thinking!
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