When my sister got her doctorate, she told her kids now they can no longer call her mama, now it’s dr. mama
When i got mine, my nephews and nieces concatenated uncle and dr, even years later they refer to me as druncle
Yeah…that’s the reason…
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Doctor who?
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Dr Them
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Doctor is gender neutral.
What if we move in the opposite direction and go with doctrix?
And I mean for everybody. Like a gender-bending neutral.
Sounds like a dominant female doctor. I’m in.
neutral
What makes a man turn neutral? Is it lust for money? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
I’ve heard doctress used for female doctors
Was it in the year 1910?
And a male doctor is a doctsman
So is “folks” but that didn’t stop people from neutralizing it or whatever it’s called.
They neutralize folks?
I wonder how’s that. Folkxs? Fxkls?
Y’all joke, I had a college professor on the first day of class say “if you want to call me by my first name, that’s fine. My first name is Doctor.”
If somebody starts with that “call me doctor” stuff, I’ll insist they’ll call me engineer. It’s also a legally protected title.
It’s strange.
Who
“Listen, lady—!”
“Doctor!”
“Doctor Lady!!”
– MST3K, Space Mutiny
Mister Doctor.
It’s Strange
Who?
Dentarthurdent
Doofenshmirtz
Dr. Mr. Professor Patrick
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I had an art history professor that insisted on being called doctor; she said she’d put in a lot of time and spent a lot of money to get that degree, and so she wanted to get her money’s worth.
She was a lot of fun.
I bet she was.
I’ve never meet someone who insisted on being called doctor that was anything except fun and reasonable to work with.
They love it when you let them know you also have a PhD…
I was being serious. She made art history–which is normally a fairly dry subject, particularly when you’re covering art before 1100CE–a really fun and engaging subject.
Isn’t professor a higher title though?
No; adjunct faculty can also rightly be called professor without having achieved a doctorate. I’ve had a few professors that had BAs and MFAs (esp. since I’m not sure that there are PhD programs for fine arts).
Interesting; I’ve literally never heard of this (EU)
It depends what country you’re in
John Hurt has entered the chat.
the NB Dr. Who iteration is kind of weird.
It’s the right kind of doctor, it checks out!
But then they don’t use PhD’s preferred pronouns to refer to PhD in the tweet 😔
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@fossilesque HENRY ROLLINS NEVER NEEDED PRONOUNS
Dr. Allcome.