So much tmi
And speaking of changing everything for the sake of a handful of narcissists…
In a medical setting? People getting vaccinated or treated for Covid are supposed to want all that in their faces? Are you joking?
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And speaking of changing everything for the sake of a handful of narcissists…
In a medical setting? People getting vaccinated or treated for Covid are supposed to want all that in their faces? Are you joking?
Not that interested in his sex life. But I’d be happy to have the ‘let’s talk about cats’ one. Though I will be honest and say I’d prefer it to say ‘let’s talk about my cat’.
I recommend going to the original Twitter post where the poor man gets a good shellacking.
The first thing that sprang to mind after seeing that picture:
Let’s see if the embed works here…
(That’d be a nope).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftno
Heh. “Flare.” Good one.
What’s the point of the ‘I am here’ badge? Yes, they’re all pointless really, but that one seems just a tad more useless than the rest. It imparts no more information than that the person wearing the badge is in that exact place. Or, more accurately, that the badge is exactly where the badge claims to be.
Nice to see that the CQC has money to waste on such fripperies.
He doesn’t have as many badges as I have (they’re on a waistcoat; too many for a lanyard) and he doesn’t have my favourite badge, either. It says “I hate badges”
I would want one that says “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges”.
The “I am here” badge, I think, is based on the idea that one of the ways of comforting someone is simply to be present, to sit with them, not necessarily talking or listening, perhaps in mutual silence, but simply being there where they can see they are not alone. That seems extremely strange to put on a badge, though. I can imagine him pointing to his “I am here” badge as he walks out of the room.
Or that the person who made the badge was where they were when they made it.
This badge thing just makes me want to make and wear ones with messages like “your pronouns are he/him.”
latsot, wouldn’t that be a Chad-esque ‘I woz ‘ere’ badge?
For some reason the ‘I am here’ badge reminded me of a map of the town I grew up in. It was outside the Tourist Information office (actually the public library: it doubled up because librarians are the fount of all local knowledge) and had a list of local attractions to the side, each with a button to press which lit a bulb on the map to show where said attraction was to be found. To provide a starting point of reference, the top button and corresponding button were labeled ‘You are here’.
I now have an an image of the bloke in the photo above carrying an interactive map everywhere he goes because he is constantly getting lost, even at work, and pressing his ‘I am here’ badge lights up his current position on the map.
No, because it wouldn’t be true at the time of writing. Although it’s just possible that we’re overthinking this just a little ;)
The village I grew up in was so small it didn’t even show up on a map of itself.
Well, at least we are giving it some thought, unlike dear Ray up there, who clearly gave his pet project none whatsoever.
Just as with that official SNP (was it? I can’t be arsed to check) definition of transphobia from the other day, it’s quite alarming that this badge nonsense, from conception to design, must have had to go through several people before being signed off as good-to-go, and, well, just look at them. There is something rather creepy (icky, even) about seeing a man wearing badges stating I’m gay’ and ‘I like men’ in a child-like script, bad enough jn isolation but given an added boost of sinister when they’re juxtaposed with another bearing the logo ‘YOUNGMiNDS’.
Well the thing about these uncertain privacy situations is that they’re unstable. If I were in some kind of medical consultation with laughing boy up there with all his badges, for example, and I just turned up with one saying “gravy” or something, he’d be flummoxed. The power would now be mine because he’d want to ask what the gravy business was all about, but I’ve gone off piste so he doesn’t know whether gravy is my sexuality or my pronoun or my hobby or my cat’s name or what. So he doesn’t know whether it’s appropriate to ask. And if he does ask, I just look confused and change the subject.
He probably wouldn’t be as overjoyed with his badges after that.
Actually, technically that’s ‘hinky’ not ‘icky’. There are a lot of good terms in privacy research, mostly because we’re just making it up as we go along.
It is fortunate that Ray and his friends in the LGBTQIAZW!§₪^ Network cannot (yet) enforce wearing the badges on those who don’t want to participate, although I’m sure there’ll be much ‘friendly’ persuasion going on.
The way things are going, and the way the TAs are playing ‘mission creep’, they’re really getting close to the mandatory outing of everybody – something that Tatchell flirted with in the ’80s when Stonewall first came to the general public’s notice with its ‘OUT’ campaign, which was basically outing public figures who were or were suspected of being closet homosexuals by Tatchell and his cronies, and was done even when their targets didn’t want to be outed or, as happened more than once, they were mistaken about their target and ‘outed’ straight men. Now it’s badges, and Stonewall is on the periphery of this strange campaign as well.
I wonder if there are badges provided for heterosexuals, too? Or maybe they realise that having men walk around with badges proclaiming ‘I’m straight’ and ‘I like women’ might just be seen as a tad predatory, and women stating ‘I like men’ is just asking for trouble (not that the TAs care about the latter, all women are either allies or TERFs nowadays, and I’m sure that the allies will wear whatever badges they’re told to wear).
Finally, the more I think of Ray’s ‘YOUNGMiNDS’ and ‘I like men’ badges, given that the former strongly suggests that he works mainly with children, the more unsettled I feel. Why would an adult want the kids he works with to know his sexuality, and in such a cutesy, child-friendly way? Chances are that Ray himself is safe around youngsters but in the wrong hands those badges could be the ideal, officially-mandated ‘in’ for a predatory groomer of children, particulary vulnerable children seeking help.
I might be guilty of reading too much into the badges but, having seen too many TA dirty tricks already I’ll almost guarantee that if any of my concerns were to be voiced by anybody on the CQC staff, the response would start with ‘God, they’re only badges’ and escalate to accusations of phobias, official reprimands, public shaming and eventual dismissal if the complainant refuses to see the light.
I figured “I’m here” is a reference to that chant Homer Simpson heard at the mustache parade:
https://youtu.be/IlGfQfTjMTw
I think I would like one that says “This is not a badge, but it identifies as a badge”.
Announcing your sexuality (the “I like men” badge) has a time and a place.
It’s appropriate when a woman asks him out for a drink. Or when he is asked if he’s gay. Or when he wants to March at Pride.
It’s not appropriate when he’s asked to pass the salt. Or take a 12 year old’s blood pressure. Or get a nervous patient from the waiting room to receive their test results.
That time and place is not advertising it on your chest 24/7.
And if it did seem appropriate to anyone, ask yourself, if he were straight and the badge read “I like women”, would that be appropriate in the workplace?