Witch-switch on or witch-switch off --- either way I think these incidents beg the question of whose responsibility is it to help remove stigmatizing language from healthcare. Having lived in Montreal during the era of the "language police" (when Quebec Province came within a few votes of leaving Canada), I am certainly not advocating that all of us turn into "language police" at the drop of a hat (or an inappropriate word as the case may be). Nor do I expect us all to be a teaching squad of saints every time we are ambushed in public by a rude stranger. But perhaps somewhere in between these extremes we can find a compromise. "Never on Sunday" and "Tuesdays with Morrie" are already taken. So how about "Each One, Teach One Mondays"? Maybe we could make Monday our day (our being Quiggle holders) and decide that on Mondays all of us together can make just a little dent in the stigmatization that language causes. Imagine the surprise on a stranger's face when they've asked a rude question to a Quiggle holder and the answer is "Did you know today is Monday - Each One, Teach One Day?" Now that question should start a more interesting conversation, don't you think? And by the way, in case you are wondering, the woman I asked if she didn't think her question was rude, quickly admitted that yes, she did think it was quite rude, and that she was very, very sorry --- sort of making the person with the witch-switch look just a tinsy bit rude herself!
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