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The bear on the Bern (Switzerland) coat of arms will keep its penis despite pressure to remove it. (www.swissinfo.ch)
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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The bear has always been depicted on official documents with a red phallus. In view of this tradition, the cantonal government believed that it was reasonable to continue to depict the bear in this way. Nor did it wish to conduct an online survey on the bear’s future appearance. In its view, such a survey would not be representative and would have little informative value.

Normally I'm pro-democracy but they make some good points here

[–] holomorphic@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

This was officially brought into Parlament as a 'question'. Answering it without any aditional actions, is exactly how this is supposed to be handled.