Dutch gynecologist Bertho Nieboer was driving down a highway in the Netherlands when he spotted a billboard for a metal festival promoting one of American's greatest death metal exports, Dying Fetus, and being a gyno, he was offended at the mere name, posting the following tweet:
Oproep aan @gem_nijmegen om reclameborden voor death metal festival met bandnamen als "Dying Fetus" te verwijderen! pic.twitter.com/eAqYNFHrXW
— Bertho Nieboer (@DokterBertho) May 27, 2015
A rough translation of the tweet "Calling on the town of Nijmegen to remove billboards for death metal festivals with band names like 'Dying Fetus'!" Lambgoat notes the story is getting some publicity in major Dutch newspapers, such as this one, where the gyno requests the billboards be taken down:
Gynecologist Bertho Nieboer of the Radboudumc hospital in the city of Nijmegen called on the city to remove posters for hard rock festival FortaRock. Nieboer finds it offensive that expectant parents are faced with the name Dying Fetus, one of the bands performing at FortaRock. Nieboer put his complaint on Twitter.
In remarks to newspaper De Gelderlander, the gynecologist says that the unseemly posters are adjacent to the hospital. "If someone like a child is lost, it can be very intense to see that band name so larg. A child lost is very significant," said Nieboer.
A municipality spokesman, however, told De Gelderlander that is has no control over the posters. Robert Korstanje of FortaRock also points out that Dying Fetus nothing to do with dying fetuses: "I understand the point of Nieboer, but the band name is far down on the poster. Someone who is not interested in the festival will not read it carefully."
While I can certainly understand the gyno's concern (I really like writing gyno)… it seems silly that a small print on a billboard that people are driving by would be enough to offend and ruin somebody's day. In fact, in the wake of all this controversy, Nieboer has seemed to soften his stance, just moments before this post was published:
To @DyingFetusBand: Just wanted to raise a discussion about the billboards around our hospital; that worked. Enjoy Holland and the festival.
— Bertho Nieboer (@DokterBertho) May 29, 2015
