My sister is an emergency doctor in a deep "blue" (aka right-wing) area in Germany, and she sent me this photo of a button she and her colleagues are wearing when on duty: "Your are safe with me."
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@blondy but if they’re in Germany, why is it in English and not in German?
🤨🧐@scottytrees @blondy I assume because it's much easier to find them in English.
It makes sense, however, because pretty much all Germans understand enough English to read these but not everyone in German hospitals speaks German well enough to be able to read the message in German. -
@oliverboehme @blondy Historically, red is the colour of revolution (since at least the French revolution), and, via that route, of communism/socialism. Blue has a (much weaker) association with Monarchy and conservatism. The US red/blue states more or less emerged randomly during the Bush v. Gore TV reporting in 2000.
@StephanSchulz @oliverboehme @blondy Wow, honestly didn't realise that this was such a late development. Always thought that it was like that for a much longer time and I just didn't learn it earlier. Makes it even more strange that it developed at a time where the Republicans were already the clearly more conservative party and red has clearly been associated with socialism for a century.
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@blondy very sympathetic, obviously.
But that doctors need to proclaim this at all, is a horror to me. It should go without saying that one is safe with a doctor, especially in emergencies. Or am I too boomer when I say this? What a time to be alive.
@CyclesSmiles oh have you ever heard of "trans broken arm syndrome"?
tldr, docs will always try to deflect every symptom you describe as result of your HRT or shit. even when you slipped on a stair and broke your arm right in front of their eyes.
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@blondy very sympathetic, obviously.
But that doctors need to proclaim this at all, is a horror to me. It should go without saying that one is safe with a doctor, especially in emergencies. Or am I too boomer when I say this? What a time to be alive.
@CyclesSmiles @blondy It _is_ sad that this is necessary, but: Medical professionals a few decades ago were also not all exemplary and supportive. They might not have been full blown fascists, but there are countless stories where queer people and cis women were not taken seriously in medicine, sometimes with quite severe consequences.
The better times of the boomers were often not even that good if you did not happen to be a cis straight white man.
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@blondy Come to think of it, it's a bit confusing that the colour coding for blue and red states in the US and Germany is the other way round (in German: blue state = right-wing, red state = left-wing).
@oliverboehme @blondy it's weird since the US still uses "red" when they mean cold war communism as in "better dead than red” and "red scare".
And the Democratic Socialists of America do use red like SPD.
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@CyclesSmiles @blondy It _is_ sad that this is necessary, but: Medical professionals a few decades ago were also not all exemplary and supportive. They might not have been full blown fascists, but there are countless stories where queer people and cis women were not taken seriously in medicine, sometimes with quite severe consequences.
The better times of the boomers were often not even that good if you did not happen to be a cis straight white man.
@HeptaSean As I am a boomer, I can confess that those early times were a horror for queer people. In Germany, the "famous" paragraph 175 was in law until 1994! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph_175
Yes, queer boomers protested for a better life but often unheard by society. It's not a question of age to fight for democracy and equal rights!
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@radio4392 how did you develop that idea?
“I eat rice” does not mean I won’t eat anything else.
Work on your reading comprehension skills.
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@radio4392 You really didn’t have to present yourself as an asshole in public with this reply.
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My sister is an emergency doctor in a deep "blue" (aka right-wing) area in Germany, and she sent me this photo of a button she and her colleagues are wearing when on duty: "Your are safe with me." on a Progress Pride flag.
This is so awesome!
Please pass on my heartfelt thanks to your sister and colleagues from an old white cis man.
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My sister is an emergency doctor in a deep "blue" (aka right-wing) area in Germany, and she sent me this photo of a button she and her colleagues are wearing when on duty: "Your are safe with me." on a Progress Pride flag.
This is so awesome!
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@radio4392 You really didn’t have to present yourself as an asshole in public with this reply.
@hypolite @radio4392@catodon.rocks No, but I love it when people voluntarily show themselves as someone to block with "all lives matter" replies like that.
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@CyclesSmiles @blondy I strongly belief in the right to freedom of thought and religion but if what you believe in goes against the values of society at large and hinders the rights of others it should be your problem. Go find a job where you don't have to deal with others.
Freedom of religion, even in the most progressive societies, still functions in one direction only.
Can't deal with queer folk? Don't be a medical professional, don't have a shop, don't do anything that requires you to interact with and help others.
That's not a burden society places on you, that's the burden you placed on yourself.
(yours is not a boomer sentiment by the way, it's the sentiment of any decent person)
@thisislieven @CyclesSmiles There is unfortunately no rule preventing racist or queerphobic assholes from becoming doctors. (Look up "Morbus mediterraneus", as a starter.) If you appear straight or white enough to them, you'll probably never notice.
@blondy This *is* awesome. My gratitude to your sister and her colleagues!
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@blondy Unrelated, but I can’t read “Notarzt” without first wrongly translating to “Not-a-doctor”. I figure out what it means, eventually.
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@blondy can one buy those buttons somewhere?
@caraplayingstuff Not actually sure. She said one of her colleagues showed up with a couple of them. I'll ask her if she knows where she had them from.
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@blondy Very cool and important!
I hope they don't get in trouble with the blue brownies because of that.@elminuto Yeah, me too. But I guess among her colleagues that is okay, or at least there are enough wearing the button that it sends a clear signal.
And if a fascist or other hater prefers not to be helped by an emergeny doctor wearing such a button, well... -
Cool!
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But I agree with the others that it's sad it's not a matter of course that everyone is safe with healthcare professionals..In case you know this:
Does everyone have to wear a lab coat that says “Notarzt,” or are there also options like “Notärztin” or “Notärzt*in"?
@Lalelilolu I don't know. That is a really good question! I vaguely remember her telling me something about this. I will ask that again, I'm also curious now.
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@caraplayingstuff Not actually sure. She said one of her colleagues showed up with a couple of them. I'll ask her if she knows where she had them from.
@caraplayingstuff Apparently somebody else already knew:
https://mastodon.social/@dmian/117416521465537678 -
@blondy Unrelated, but I can’t read “Notarzt” without first wrongly translating to “Not-a-doctor”. I figure out what it means, eventually.
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@blondy You can get them as enamel pins and lanyards too!
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@oliverboehme @blondy Typically, the US uses the opposite system to pretty much every other country in the world.
@Nickiquote @oliverboehme @blondy But Americans know the "red scare"
