Being a "Man" makes it OK for someone to punch you??

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I had an incident at work last night. My female partner and I were going to pick up a patient from this nursing home (I'm an EMT)... it's a male patient with psych history and agitation, he's a bit demented too. There were three female nurses up there with him. So my partner and I got the stretcher all set up and we're trying to help him onto it, he didn't wanna go, then the nurses tried and he got real agitated and tried to knock em out. This went on for about maybe 5 minutes or so. So then, my partner is speaking to him, trying to level with him, in spanish (the patient doesn't speak english). So after they're done talking, there was a moment of silence, I was waiting for my partner to tell me what the patient said, what was going on, you know, cuz I dont speak spanish, I dont know what he just said. Then all of a sudden, one of the female nurses had the nerve to look at me and say "Go ahead, you're the man, take him." My female partner looked back at her and told her "Just because he's a man doesn't mean he wants to get punched in the face." I was so pissed off at that nurse for saying what she said to me. Just cuz I'm a "man" doesn't mean jack. I've heard that "man" excuse used so many times throughout my life it almost makes me sick whenever i hear it now. Not to sound racist or anything, but being that that comment came from a Jamaican nurse, I'm not surprised, because most Jamaican women expect men to do everything anyway.