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I was thinking more along the lines of how a newly-hired male nurse is perceived by female nurses. If he screws up, is it likely that they'll think "men don't make good nurses" and ignore the fact that he's new?

So, no I'm not suggesting that I represent all men. I'm saying it's possible a male nurse may in some way be representing all male nurses to his female nurse coworkers.

But you 're not turning it around, because men are not minority. Think this though: If you 're greek in some way you 're assumed to be representing all greeks.

What you say is true. We only really represent ourselves and when it comes to it, no one is going to help you but yourself --but other people will generalize from your identifiable characteristics (ethnicity, sex, school, height, demeanor, style, speech, etc.) because that's the way we all do things every day.