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 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 Same in the UK, blue = right-wing (although purple = far right-wing is becoming worryingly popular...), red = left-wing (although they're becoming more and more wishy-washy and centrist...)
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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!
@blondy I love it! Compliments to her and all others!
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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!
@blondy You can get them as enamel pins and lanyards too!
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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!
@blondy That's great! I was curious, why is it in English rather than German?
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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 Independently of your age, it's a difference between theoretical safety in a hospital and feeling a signal of welcoming and experience.
Try to imagine being trans and getting a fascist doctor. Yes, of course, they have to treat you in equality with others. But will they do it?
In Germany are regions where it's time to show resistance. By old and young. -
@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 The colour of political parties differs from country to country. The US are only one country of many. Fascists in Germany once in history were brown with red flags. The extreme right then chose blue to avoid all the historical "brown as shit" comments.
Edit: sorry that I explained German colours to a German, I thought you were from the USA. *peinlich* -
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!
@blondy but if they’re in Germany, why is it in English and not in German?
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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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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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@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 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.
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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!
@blondy Unrelated, but I can’t read “Notarzt” without first wrongly translating to “Not-a-doctor”. I figure out what it means, eventually. -
@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.
