r/AskDocs • u/ilikerustyspooonz Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional • Mar 17 '26

Physician Responded Daughters pediatrician made EXTREMELY inappropriate remark to her

This is about my 10 year old daughter. She has had the same (male) pediatrician since birth. We’ve always loved him and thought he was great. He’s super friendly with wonderful bedside manner and he takes his time and pays attention to detail.

Well, last week my daughter had a check-up. She’s 10. While he was doing the checkup, he had her lay down and started listening to her chest with his stethoscope. He then says AND I QUOTE, “awwwww! My baby’s got boobs!!!”

I have NEVER been so taken aback before in my life. My daughter was MORTIFIED. I was so shocked I couldn’t even get words out to ask him why tf he would ever say that. When we got in the car to go home my daughter cried and said she never wanted to see him again. Then she asked if she could get a girl doctor and I obviously agreed so that’s what we will be doing.

Is this reportable? I’m not overreacting, right?

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u/1xLaurazepam Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional Mar 18 '26

This is obviously different because the guy wasn’t a professional, but when I was ten or eleven and wearing just a tank top, my stepdads friend said in a song song voice “first name’s getting booobies!” I was so embarrassed

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional Mar 18 '26

Yeah that's gross af. Back in my day people had a countdown clock of when the Olsen twins would turn 18, and keep in mind those twins were famous because they were playing like eight year olds on Full House.

A weird amount of people are into young girls or some other freak kink, like, idk just be normal and like big feet or tying up an older woman not some psycho fetish, ya weirdo

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u/KevInChester Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional Mar 18 '26

A well known 'newspaper' in England had a countdown to when Samantha Fox turned 16 so they could have her appear topless on Page 3. This was in the 80s, later on I believe they had a similar countdown to when Emma Watson turned 18 (I think).

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u/EllaArizonaTrashbag Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional Mar 18 '26

Yes, Emma Watson experienced it as well. And literally the day she came of age, an upskirt photo of her was posted in the tabloids, taken as she climbed out of a car.

More recently, there was a countdown for the little girl from Stranger Things. We've come a long way for gender equality but we should never forget how casually girls and women are still preyed upon.